How to teach Goose your knowledge

Enable Goose Memory

In Goose Desktop, open the top-left button, select Extensions, then toggle Memory on. In Goose CLI, run goose configure, choose Toggle Extensions, then enable memory (Goose Memory guide).

Save project or general instructions

Goose stores project memories in .goose/memory/ in the working directory. Global user memories live in ~/.config/goose/memory/ and apply across projects (Goose Memory guide).

Use Goose’s memory tools to save information with a category, optional tags, and local or global scope. You can ask Goose to learn material and save it, then ask it to remember those standards in later requests (Goose Memory guide).

Use files for detailed reference material

For long instructions, keep the material in a file and tell Goose to refer to and follow that file. Goose’s documentation gives an example of pointing it to a notes file for JavaScript help (Goose Memory guide).

Find or remove saved memories

Goose provides tools to retrieve memories by category, remove a category, or remove one memory by matching its content. The * category retrieves all memories or clears all memories, depending on the tool, so use it carefully (Goose Memory guide).

What Goose Memory stores

Goose’s Memory extension lets you teach it information such as commands, code snippets, preferences, and configurations for later recall (Goose Memory guide). Its memories can apply to a project or across projects (Goose Memory guide).

Start a session with saved memories

Goose loads saved memories at the start of a session and includes them in prompts sent to the language model (Goose Memory guide). The guide says to open a new Goose Desktop session or run goose session in the CLI (Goose Memory guide).

To bring your saved reading into Goose as well, add the KnowMan MCP server to Goose.