Day 5 of the Advent of AI is here!
& it’s time to throw your keyboards out the window.
The challenge: build a gesture-controlled Homecoming Board using real flight data.
Watch the Day 5 solution + try the Day 6 challenge, now live!
Block Open Source
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At Block, we believe open source is at the heart of innovation and community empowerment. Our vision is to nurture a diverse and vibrant open source ecosystem that removes barriers to technology and fosters economic opportunities for all.
It's Friday!
You know what that means...it's time to see what goose events are coming up next 🪿
- MCP Night returns for a special holiday edition by WorkOS! Join the goose team at the historic Regency Ballroom for incredible demos and discussions.
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MCP Night: Holiday Special
MCP Night returns this holiday season, bringing the developer community together at the forefront of AI and MCP. Join us...
It's the most wonderful time of the year... to build with goose. ❄️
Starting December 1st, swap that holiday rerun for a daily AI challenge! Join Advent of AI and boost your AI agent proficiency every weekday.
All skill levels welcome


Announcing Advent of AI
We're launching an advent calendar of AI engineering challenges to help you build applicable projects with goose.
At Block, we're moving fast with AI, but never at the expense of security. Here are our GenAI security principles.


Block Engineering Blog
GenAI Security Principles
Blogpost about how to secure Generative AI applications by security engineers Wes Ring and Josiah Peedikayil. Product security offensive security.
MCP-UI changes the game!
Instead of typing prompt after prompt, developers can now build real, interactive UIs— all running inside Goose.
We’ll show you how it works, how you can make your own, and why it’s such a big deal.
📺: https://linktr.ee/blockopensource
📆: THURS · August 14 at 9am PT / 12pm ET


Goose is free. But the most performant LLMs aren’t.
We didn’t want people paying out of pocket just to try Goose at meetups. So, Rizel Scarlett built a credit system using Open Router's provisioning API.


How OpenRouter Unlocked Our Workshop Strategy
How we used Open Router to provide frictionless LLM access for Goose workshops
What if your AI agent could read real GitHub docs—not hallucinate them?
With the GitMCP extension Goose can:
✅ Pull live docs from any public repo
✅ Extract real setup + usage patterns
✅ Scaffold smarter, faster
📹:
Full Tutorial: 

GitMCP Extension | goose
Add Git MCP Server as a goose Extension
June 2025 Community All-Stars ⭐
It's time to celebrate all contributors who’ve helped make goose better, because every single contribution is important! 🏆
Check it out:

Community | goose
Join the goose community - connect with developers, contribute to the project, and help shape the future of AI-powered development tools.
Our engineers discovered USB barcode scanners were causing Android apps to freeze due to a garbage collection issue. Instead of just patching our own apps, we dug deep, found the root cause, and contributed the fix upstream to Android 16.
The result? 40% improvement in our P90 latency + a fix that benefits the entire Android ecosystem.
This is why we contribute to open source - when we make platforms better, everyone wins. 🚀


Block Engineering Blog
Ending Android USB Freezes
We investigated a main thread stall with perfetto and simpleperf, found that AOSP's USB stack can block garbage collection, and upstreamed a fix
🪿📱Introducing Goose Mobile
An exciting new experimental project in the goose ecosystem!
Goose Mobile is an open agent that runs directly on your Android device, designed to maximize automation of your everyday tasks.
GitHub
GitHub - block/goose-mobile: website
website. Contribute to block/goose-mobile development by creating an account on GitHub.