Goose 1.45 Lets Enterprises Disable Built-In Skills

Block shipped Goose v1.45.0 on July 29, adding the ability to disable built-in skills and pin an offline documentation root, per the release notes on GitHub.

For teams running Goose inside networks that can't reach the open internet, that combination matters. The agent can now be locked to internal skills and a GOOSE_DOCS_ROOT pointed at internal docs instead of pulling from Block's hosted defaults.

Under the hood, Goose also upgrades to rmcp 2.0, the library handling its Model Context Protocol connections to tools. Opus 5 now works with adaptive thinking.

A separate fix applies Hermit's environment directly inside node shims, so a fish login shell no longer breaks MCP startup.

None of these changes are dramatic by themselves. Together, they point toward regulated and air-gapped customers rather than solo developers on laptops.

The release notes don't say which skills are disabled by default. They also don't say what happens to a running agent mid-task when its docs root gets repointed. Worth watching whether Block keeps stripping default capabilities out in future releases, or whether this one was a one-off ahead of a specific customer deployment.