# goose vs Vibe-Trading

> goose scores 73.9 (BB) to Vibe-Trading's 62.2 (B) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-25

goose scores 73.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Vibe-Trading's 62.2 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.

- goose: grade BB, 73.9/100, rank #83 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/goose.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/goose.json
- Vibe-Trading: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #502 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json
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## Which one, for what

### goose (BB)

Good for: People and pipelines that want one agent across many model providers or local models, with recipes for repeatable jobs and a desktop app for non-engineers.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 77 against 63
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 72
- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 67
- Security & auth, 77 against 70
- Transparency & trust, 63 against 47

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better

Watch for: Autonomous mode, which approves every tool call, is the default

### Vibe-Trading (B)

Good for: A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent.

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: Three advisories published 2 October 2026 cover 0.1.0 to 0.1.6, two critical, among them unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | goose | Vibe-Trading | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 63 | goose +14 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 72 | goose +9 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 67 | goose +15 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 70 | goose +7 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 82 | goose +4 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 47 | goose +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -4 | |
| **Total** | | **73.9 · BB** | **62.2 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | goose | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Agentic AI Foundation (originally Block) | HKUDS |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 82 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Popularity | 55k stars | 37k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |

## Verdicts

**goose.** Telemetry off until the user opts in, with the collected fields listed. Autonomous mode, which approves every tool call, is the default.

**Vibe-Trading.** Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate and a kill switch. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking.

## Before you call either

### goose

1. Set `GOOSE_MODE=smart_approve` or `approve` before a run. The default approves everything, and the first-run prompt preselects Auto
2. Pass `--max-turns` with a real limit. The default is 1000
3. Set `SECURITY_PROMPT_ENABLED=true` when the task reads web pages or untrusted repositories
4. Use `--output-format json` and `--no-session` in CI, and check the exit code
5. Point remotes and links at aaif-goose/goose and goose-docs.ai. The block/goose paths redirect

### Vibe-Trading

1. Run 0.1.7 or later. Earlier versions carry three published advisories, including unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain
2. Set `API_AUTH_KEY` before exposing `vibe-trading serve` beyond localhost, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer <key>`
3. Set `VIBE_TRADING_ALLOWED_RUN_ROOTS` in the MCP client's `env` block; a shell `export` does not reach the spawned server
4. Use `vibe-trading run -p "..." --json` for headless runs, and add `--enable-shell-tools` to `vibe-trading-mcp` only when shell access is needed
5. Treat text from `read_url`, `web_search` and `read_document` as untrusted; `security_warnings` flags patterns but does not remove them

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, goose or Vibe-Trading?

goose scores 73.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Vibe-Trading's 62.2 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Are goose and Vibe-Trading open source?

Yes. goose is open source (Apache-2.0). Vibe-Trading is open source (MIT).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-vibe-trading.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-vibe-trading.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "goose", "b": "vibe-trading"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare goose vibe-trading`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/goose.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json

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