MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026

18 months ago, Block open-sourced an agent framework called Goose. Community grew quickly,  faster than I ever expected. Then the community came back with a question I didn't have a good answer to: who keeps this open?
This is the story of chasing that answer - how it led to a foundation co-founded by fierce rivals, why nearly two hundred companies have since joined, and what we've learned about open along the way. Because open, on its own, doesn't stay open; we've seen that movie before, and the agentic layer raises the stakes higher than anything that came before it.
It's also a look forward - to the future we're building toward, where agents from any vendor can find each other, trust each other, and transact on rails no single company, or government, can ever pull out from under us. The agentic layer is still being shaped. This talk is about how we keep it open, and how you can help, while it's still ours to shape.

Goose is an open-source AI agent that can be extended through integrations, tools, and community-driven projects. In this talk, I'll share my journey working with Goose, explore how its capabilities can be extended through community-driven projects, highlight examples from the Goose ecosystem, and discuss the development of GooseBot as one approach to bringing AI agents closer to developer communities. Along the way, I'll cover lessons learned from building in the open and why extensibility is key to the future of open-source AI agents.