Summon the
Goose

Open source · Local-first · No lock-in · No surveillance

01 How it works

Three steps, one machine

The installer is public and is the same for everyone. It never asks you to paste a key into a hosted website: configuration and optional Navigator membership connection happen on a local page served from your own machine.

01 Terminal

Run one command

Paste the install command below into Terminal. It fetches the Mycroft repo and its public pinned tools directly; it does not download Indicator Labs or Engine.

02 Browser

Configure locally

A configurator page opens in your browser, served from 127.0.0.1. Pick cloud or local, toggle plugins, choose your vault folder with a native picker, paste keys. Keys are verified live with each provider and written straight to ~/.config/goose/mycroft/.env — they never touch a remote server and never sit in your Downloads folder.

03 Goose

Meet Mycroft

The installer scaffolds your vault, registers recipes and schedules, runs mycroft doctor, and opens Goose plus a personalized getting-started guide.

02 Before you start

Have these ready

No membership is required. Bring only the provider keys for the options you select. Indicator members may connect Navigator directly; everyone else can continue with its unified skill locked.

01 Web access

Firecrawloptional fallback

A hosted fallback for hard anti-bot targets. Sovereign SearXNG and Crawl4AI work without an account.

Get API key →

02 Intelligence

A modelpick one

Cloud-first: Fireworks AI serving GLM-5.2 (ZDR by default — open weights on Fireworks' own US GPUs, never routed to Z.AI, ~$6-40/mo). Local-first: no key at all — Gemma 4 31B runs on your machine, 32 GB+ RAM.

Fireworks key →

03 Optional

Extrasskippable

Scoutpost (free monitoring tier, including MuckRock sources) · Navigator (Pro: OSINT discovery; Lab: OSINT plus Data Navigator) · Junkipedia · Apify · AgentMail. Splash is coming in September 2026 and is not installed yet.

Public Spotlight ships in the box. Its OSINT investigation skills and the Scoutpost monitoring skill are configured on the local page — no separate Engine or desktop-app download.

03 The command

One line.
Then the browser

The installer is a static, reviewable bash script — read it before you run it. No personalized blobs, no keys baked into downloads. 

curl -fsSL https://mycroft.buriedsignals.com/install.sh | bash
macOS & Linux. Windows via WSL2. Prefer a file? The ZIP contains a tiny install.command that fetches and runs the same canonical script — double-click it on macOS (right-click → Open the first time).
Read the script
Downloaded. Extract the ZIP and double-click install.command. macOS will warn about an unverified file the first time — right-click the file, choose Open, then Open again. It fetches and runs the same script as the one-line command above.