v1.34.0
aaif-goose/goosev1.34.0May 13, 2026by github-actions[bot]
AI Summary
Major release introducing hooks support for customizable agent behavior, Agents CRUD operations, Projects as backend sources, and MCP Apps integration. Includes auto-updating for plugins and Linux Vulkan support.
Key Highlights
- Hooks support for customizable agent behavior
- Agents CRUD operations
- Projects as backend sources with system prompt injection
- MCP Apps integration with hydration and replay
- Auto-updating for plugins
- Linux Vulkan support for local inference
New Features
- Hooks support for customizable agent behavior
- Agents CRUD operations
- Projects as backend sources with system prompt injection
- Auto-updating for plugins
- Linux Vulkan support for local inference
- ACP streamable HTTP spec compliance
- Expose built-in skills through sources list
- Provider-first onboarding flow
- Move goose2 provider catalog behind ACP layer
- Group consecutive tool calls into one summarized chain card
- Replace raw config and secret methods in ACP
- goose2 support for custom providers in UI & ACP
- Configurable Ollama host in goose2
- Update provider row after saving credentials
- Google model inventory refresh support
- Skills in the chat composer
- Mergeable configs
- MCP Apps: hydrate and replay app payloads
- MCP Apps: translate ACP host capabilities
- Windows CUDA release artifacts
- goose2 compact settings modal headers
- goose-tui binary
Full Release Notes
## ✨ Features - Hooks support for customizable agent behavior [#9093](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9093) - Agents CRUD operations [#9084](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9084) - Projects as backend sources with system prompt injection [#8739](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8739) - Auto-updating for plugins [#9061](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9061) - Linux Vulkan support for local inference [#9038](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9038) - ACP streamable HTTP spec compliance [#9034](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9034) - Expose built-in skills through sources list ACP calls [#9045](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9045) - Provider-first onboarding flow [#9039](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9039) - Move goose2 provider catalog behind ACP layer [#9030](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9030) - Group consecutive tool calls into one summarized chain card [#8995](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8995) - Replace raw config and secret methods in ACP [#9000](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9000) - goose2 support for custom providers in UI & ACP [#8924](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8924) - Configurable Ollama host in goose2 [#8912](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8912) - Update provider row after saving credentials [#8914](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8914) - Google model inventory refresh support [#8913](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8913) - Skills in the chat composer [#8881](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8881) - Mergeable configs [#8378](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8378) - MCP Apps: hydrate and replay app payloads in goose2 [#8632](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8632) - MCP Apps: translate ACP host capabilities into MCP initialization [#8623](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8623) - Windows CUDA release artifacts [#8750](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8750) - goose2 compact settings modal headers [#8950](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8950) - goose-tui binary [#9089](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9089) ## 🐛 Bug Fixes - Insert tool pair summaries at chronological position in conversation [#9087](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9087) - Enable SQLite foreign key enforcement in session pool [#9121](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9121) - Deleted chat session still appears in sidebar list [#8674](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8674) - Revert unexpected change from ui/goose2 work [#9098](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9098) - Require extension_name on read_resource [#8989](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8989) - Queued message lost when clicking send now [#9074](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9074) - Keep model picker and session config in sync [#9048](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9048) - Read prompted file parameters in recipes [#8504](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8504) - Accept null tool_call arguments in OpenAI streaming chunks [#9035](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9035) - Use python3 in developer extension instructions for macOS/Linux compatibility [#8784](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8784) - Synchronously reap ACP child to avoid SIGCHLD race [#9023](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9023) - goose2 small-window chat and settings layouts [#9019](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9019) - Elicitation fixes [#8999](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8999) - SACP notifies clients of generated session names [#8983](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8983) - Unscheduling a recipe should not delete them [#8978](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8978) - Seed provider handoff history in ACP [#8941](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8941) - Respect goose2 interface density settings [#8953](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8953) - Make goose2 respect accent color [#8952](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8952) - Preserve replay message timestamps [#8942](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8942) - goose2 window minimum sizing [#8946](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8946) - Avoid transform-rasterized dialog text in goose2 [#8937](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8937) - Keep renamed skills open in detail view [#8935](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8935) - Gemini OAuth onboarding failure [#8905](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8905) - Copy and content improvements in goose2 [#8886](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8886) - Model picker stays usable during provider loading [#8900](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8900) - Handle ACP requests concurrently [#8781](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8781) - CRT linkage in Windows CUDA build [#8987](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8987) - Exclude preprompt from session title generation [#8793](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8793) - Prevent login-shell PATH probe from suspending goose on startup [#8804](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8804) - Remove defaults yaml [#8854](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8854) ## 🔧 Improvements - Keep thread tables + column [#9156](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9156) - Refactor local inference around backends [#9137](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9137) - Remove threads layer, use sessions directly for ACP [#9078](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9078) - Install plugins to ~/.agents/plugins [#9088](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9088) - Switch to official new rust-sdk for ACP [#9062](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9062) - Remove attachment preamble in goose2 [#9052](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9052) - goose2 UI state refactor (part 1) [#9049](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9049) - Clean up types [#9057](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9057) - Use native arm64 runners for Linux artifact builds [#9075](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9075) - Redesign Extensions page, remove enable toggle, treat Extension Manager as core MCP enabler per session [#8940](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8940) - Extensions page styling alignment [#9003](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9003) - Replace artifact heuristics/regexes with protocol messages [#8996](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8996) - Fold UI refactor review into code review skill [#8982](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8982) - LM Studio declarative provider improvements [#8973](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8973) - Remove artifacts dir handling [#8945](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8945) - Install plugins [#8949](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8949) - Render MCP apps inline in goose2 [#8877](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8877) - Remove skill categories [#9008](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9008) - goose2 distribution bundling [#8911](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8911) - goose2 used ACP session id [#8985](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8985) - Clean up goose2 settings headers [#8951](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8951) - Break up acp/server.rs [#8932](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8932) - goose2 skill refactor [#8897](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8897) - Update patterns for pattern-based command injection [#8546](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8546) - Polish sidebar navigation and project icons [#8896](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8896) - Parallelize provider resolution and eagerly init SQLite pool [#8899](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8899) - Update goose2 credential management behind provider-scoped ACP/core API [#8887](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8887) - Deduplicate _goose/providers/list RPC call at startup [#8873](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8873) - Agent provider to use explicit type states [#8879](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8879) - Redesign skills library [#8868](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8868) - Revert client-side autocompaction [#9055](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9055) - Set LLAMA_STATIC_CRT for Windows CUDA [#8901](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8901) - Disable spellcheck in model search [#8889](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8889) ## 📚 Documentation - Blog: orchestrating with goose [#9104](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9104) - Remove old goose bench documentation [#9054](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9054) - Updated tunnel remote access documentation [#9077](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9077) - Blog: findings with minimax and office QA benchmark [#8984](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8984) - Align CODEOWNERS with pull request review rules in GOVERNANCE.md [#9056](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9056) - Bring MAINTAINERS.md up to date [#9053](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9053) - Improve AGENTS.md readability [#8979](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8979) - Improve goose2 AGENTS.md [#9028](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9028) - Add CLAUDE.mds to mirror AGENTS.mds [#9029](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9029) - Blog: goose with peekaboo [#8884](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8884) - Blog: Built-in Local Inference [#8808](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8808) - Hide Windows CUDA download links until release [#8874](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/8874)