OpenAI Codex CLI vs Goose

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	OpenAI Codex CLI OpenAI's official terminal coding agent; adopts the SKILL.md standard.	Goose Open-source, on-machine AI agent created by Block, now hosted at the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	open source	open source
Pricing	freemium	free
Strengths	+ Adopts cross-vendor SKILL.md standard + Open source + Native OpenAI Responses API integration	+ Fully open source (Apache 2.0) under neutral Linux Foundation governance + MCP-native extension model with a large extension catalog + Desktop app, CLI, and API interfaces; runs entirely on your machine + Provider-agnostic, including local models via Ollama
Tradeoffs	− Smaller plugin ecosystem than Claude Code	− No hosted/cloud offering; users manage their own keys and token spend − Broader general-purpose focus means fewer coding-specific guardrails than dedicated coding harnesses
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