~/distillery setup → goose

Overview

Goose is an open-source AI agent from Block that supports multiple LLM providers including Anthropic. Goose reads the Anthropic base URL from the `ANTHROPIC_HOST` environment variable (not `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`). Setting this variable before running Goose routes all Claude traffic through The Distillery.

Prerequisites

You have The Distillery installed and running locally on port 3080. Goose 1.0 or newer is required with the `anthropic` provider configured.

Install Goose from the official installer:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/block/goose/releases/latest/download/download_cli.sh | bash

Export the `ANTHROPIC_HOST` environment variable pointing at The Distillery before running Goose. Note: Goose specifically uses `ANTHROPIC_HOST`, not the more common `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`; setting the wrong variable will silently route through the default endpoint.

To make this persistent, add the export line to your shell rc file:

export ANTHROPIC_HOST=http://localhost:3080
goose session

set ANTHROPIC_HOST=http://localhost:3080
goose session