goosevsOh My Pi
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
goose
Agentic AI Foundation (originally Block) · Terminal agent
#13OSSMCP
Panel
6.83 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 6.8
- Longevity
- 7.3
“Block gave it to the Linux Foundation, which is the one exit strategy that cannot be un-acquired.”
Oh My Pi
Stencil Labs · Terminal agent
#104OSSMCP
Panel
6.80 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 7.7
- Cost
- 7.3
- Longevity
- 5.7
“By the author's own account, the benchmark that beat Google's edit format by five points got his Gemini access disabled.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | goose | Oh My Pi |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | YesThe built-in Computer Controller extension drives macOS apps including the browser through the Peekaboo CLI, rather than via a dedicated CDP or Playwright tool. | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes`goose session|run --container <id>` executes extensions inside an existing Docker container; goose itself runs unsandboxed on the host otherwise. | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama (local), OpenRouter, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock | Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, 60+ providers |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 54,860 | 34,032 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | goose | Oh My Pi | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 7.5 | Oh My Pi — Pick Oh My Pi if you want a terminal agent that can attach lldb or dlv and rename through the language server; pick Pi if you want the parent project with fewer moving parts. |
| El Crítico | 6.5 | 6.0 | goose — A local agent with terminal execution whose Docker isolation is a --container flag you have to remember, a foundation instead of a vendor, and a bill that depends entirely on which model you point it at. |
| El Profesor | 6.5 | 7.0 | Oh My Pi — The edit-format claim rests on the author's own suite: 3 runs of 180 mutation-reversal tasks, 16 models, 3 formats, fresh sessions, four tools; self-reported, reproducible, biased to exact reversal. |
| La Inversora | 5.3 | 5.8 | Oh My Pi — Stencil Labs, a fork of Mario Zechner's Pi, routes work through Cursor, Copilot and Devin subscriptions, and the founder's post notes a vendor cutting off a rival harness; platform risk is the story. |
| La Jefa | 5.8 | 6.0 | Oh My Pi — Free, no SSO or audit log, a /collab command that hands out a link and a QR code so anyone can watch a session, and Nix and Home Manager modules that would let us pin sixty identical installs. |
| El Hacker | 9.3 | 8.3 | goose — Rust, Apache-2.0, every extension an MCP server in YAML, Ollama on my box, a foundation instead of a vendor; this is the one I would build if I had the time. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.