How to Create Custom Plans with “plan.md” in Goose

A Beginner’s Guide to using Goose AI

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What is Goose?

Goose is a developer agent that enhances software development by automating coding tasks within your terminal or IDE. Guided by your input, it intelligently analyzes your project’s needs, generates the necessary code, and implements changes autonomously. When working with Goose, having a structured way to guide its execution toward specific goals is essential. This is where the plan.md file comes in. A plan.md file allows you to define a customized plan for Goose, using flexible text formatting and the power of Jinja templating to create dynamic, reusable, and goal-oriented plans.

How to Set Up Goose

Before creating your custom plan.md file, you need to set up Goose.

Step1: Fork the Goose and Goose Plugin repositories on GitHub and clone them.

Step2: Install Homebrew — Visit brew.sh and follow the installation steps, or run:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Step3: To install Goose, use pipx. First ensure pipx is installed:

brew install pipx
pipx ensurepath