goose

Goose does that. Built by Block (the company behind Square and Cash App), it's a local AI agent that uses any LLM you point it at and has full access to your development environment.

The key differentiator: extensibility. Goose uses a plugin system where you can add capabilities, called 'toolkits', for specific tasks. Need it to manage your Kubernetes cluster? Deploy to AWS? Run your CI pipeline? Add the toolkit. It's designed to be the agent framework that grows with your workflow.

Apache 2.0. Backed by a major tech company, not a weekend project.

The catch: Goose needs an LLM, and the quality of its work depends entirely on which model you use. With Claude or GPT-4, it's impressive. With smaller local models, it struggles on complex tasks. Also: giving an AI agent full access to your terminal is powerful but risky. Always review what it's doing, especially with destructive commands.