goose subagents - show us your use case!

[wendytang]

Hey everyone,

Have you ever considered supercharging your work? We've been introducing subagents to goose!

To prompt for it: ask goose to 'create dynamic tasks'

What are subagents good for?

1. Independent Memory Scopes

Subagents carry their own isolated context
Useful for: summarizing large documents, debugging logs without polluting parent context, testing hypotheses in parallel without memory overlap

2. Research + Aggregation

Without Subagents: Agent queries Stripe & Adyen sequentially, risk of getting lost, context collisions, timeout
With Subagents: Parent agent spawns 2 subagents, one fetches Stripe data, one fetches Adyen data, results merged upstream → faster + modular

3. Sequential Workflows / Checklists

Example: New Employee Onboarding
Step 1: Set up account
Step 2: Provision access
Step 3: Notify stakeholders
Each step handled by a subagent, supports retries, logs, progress tracking

See more in the docs here: https://block.github.io/goose/docs/experimental/subagents/

Already using subagents? Share your use case, we'd love to know how you are using it.

[pc-style]

https://github.com/pc-style/goose

(kinda) working team of subagents
you can go from a single prompt to a simple prototype
needs lots of work tho

[taniashiba]

Thank you for creating this discussion! Tagged a couple of folks from the open source community on Discord to chime in as well. <3

[joeeuston-dev]

(Mr Kips from Discord here)
I'm currently working on doing some massive upgrades, rewrites, and patches to a large number of AWS Lambdas (50+)
Each in different languages, a mix of python 2, python 3, Javascript, node, Typescript, and Java.
I'm building a workflow that can work through a list of git repositories, use a sub agent per repo to check it out, do a quick analysis on code type, and basic overview, then associate it with a template (or recipe) for upgrade, patch, or re-write etc.
So far had some success, but looking for a better way to do agent -> agent communication. Someone mentioned in a discord post that they were looking into sub agents being treated like MCPs or similar.

[blackgirlbytes]

An amazing use case found here in the Pulse MCP handbook: https://www.pulsemcp.com/building-agents-with-goose

[dehidehidehi]

Very nice!

[towry]

https://github.com/towry/dots/blob/next/conf/llm/goose-recipes/frontend-master.yaml

Sharing my frontend master workflow.