Goose sessions, conversations, tokens, and cost

Goose sessions, chat, and recorded usage at a glance.

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AgentPeek monitoring Goose sessions, conversations, tokens, and cost on a Mac

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Local lifecycle and tool activity

Run goose and AgentPeek's local Open Plugin hooks put the session in the notch with its project, lifecycle state, prompts, tool calls, files, commands, and diffs. Goose exposes session start and end, turn stop, prompt, generic tool success and failure, plus specialized file and shell events. AgentPeek's managed generic tool events supply the file and command metrics while the lifecycle hooks keep the session current.

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External approvals stay in Goose

Goose PreToolUse and Stop hooks can enforce an Open Plugin policy denial, but that path exposes neither a native approve or deny-with-reason channel nor a permission-wait event. External tool approvals stay entirely in Goose. AgentPeek does not claim to detect or answer them; Open Terminal remains available on the monitored session with ⌥ T.

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Direct Chat through native Goose ACP

The session composer launches goose acp to load a resumable session, send a follow-up prompt, stream its reply, and cancel a prompt in flight. This ACP client owns the Direct Chat turn, so native ACP permission requests can be answered in the notch without pretending an external terminal hook is interactive.

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Conversation history from Goose SQLite

AgentPeek reads Goose's local session database for ordered user and assistant conversation history. The current projection does not claim to reconstruct Goose's parent_session_id relationships as nested AgentPeek subagent cards.

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Monthly tokens, daily history, and recorded cost

Goose's SQLite session and usage ledger records input, output, total, and cache tokens with the cost Goose recorded. AgentPeek rolls those local rows into calendar-month totals, daily token history, and recorded cost in the usage panel. Goose can label a cost as provider-reported or estimated, so AgentPeek does not call every stored value exact. Goose exposes no provider quota there, so AgentPeek shows no invented percentage or reset window.

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Paths that follow Goose itself

Goose uses ~/.config/goose, ~/.local/share/goose, and ~/.local/state/goose for config, data, and state. AgentPeek also checks the equivalent tree under a valid absolute $GOOSE_PATH_ROOT, and the backwards-compatible macOS location under ~/Library/Application Support/Block/goose, including its session database, so existing desktop installs are not orphaned. Quick Routes opens the active Goose locations.

Questions

Yes. Goose sessions appear in the Mac notch with local lifecycle and tool activity, conversation history, files, commands, and diffs. AgentPeek does not currently claim nested Goose subagent projection.
Not for an external Goose run. PreToolUse and Stop can enforce Open Plugin policy denial, but the hook path exposes neither a native approval channel nor a permission-wait event, so tool approvals stay entirely in Goose. Open Terminal remains available on the monitored session. Direct Chat is different because goose acp supplies native ACP permissions in the notch.
Yes. Direct Chat launches goose acp to load a resumable session, stream the reply, handle native ACP permission requests, and cancel a prompt in flight.
It reads Goose local SQLite session and usage ledger rows, then shows calendar-month raw token totals, daily token history, and the cost Goose recorded. Goose can mark that cost provider-reported or estimated. Goose exposes no provider quota, so AgentPeek does not invent one.
The documented roots are ~/.config/goose, ~/.local/share/goose, and ~/.local/state/goose. AgentPeek also checks the backwards-compatible macOS location under ~/Library/Application Support/Block/goose, where existing desktop installs can keep config, data, state, and sessions.

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