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feat: Allow configuring hints filename(s) (#3269)

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Signed-off-by: Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdhury@gmail.com>
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Rami Chowdhury
2025-07-31 13:06:08 -04:00
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documentation/docs/guides/tips.md
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Turning on too many extensions can degrade performance. Enable only essential [extensions and tools](/docs/guides/managing-tools/tool-permissions) to improve tool selection accuracy, save context window space, and stay within provider tool limits.
### Teach Goose your preferences
Help Goose remember how you like to work by using [`.goosehints`](/docs/guides/using-goosehints/) for permanent project preferences and the [Memory extension](/docs/mcp/memory-mcp) for things you want Goose to dynamically recall later. Both can help save valuable context window space while keeping your preferences available.
Help Goose remember how you like to work by using [`.goosehints` or other context files](/docs/guides/using-goosehints/) for permanent project preferences and the [Memory extension](/docs/mcp/memory-mcp) for things you want Goose to dynamically recall later. Both can help save valuable context window space while keeping your preferences available.
### Protect sensitive files
Goose is often eager to make changes. You can stop it from changing specific files by creating a [.gooseignore](/docs/guides/using-gooseignore) file. In this file, you can list all the file paths you want it to avoid.
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You don’t need to get it right the first time. Iterating on prompts and tools is part of the workflow.
### Keep Goose updated
Regularly [update](/docs/guides/updating-goose) Goose to benefit from the latest features, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
Regularly [update](/docs/guides/updating-goose) Goose to benefit from the latest features, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
documentation/docs/guides/using-goosehints.md
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You can use both global and local hints at the same time. When both exist, Goose will consider both your global preferences and project-specific requirements. If the instructions in your local hints file conflict with your global preferences, Goose will prioritize the local hints.
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:::tip
You can name your context files differently -- e.g. `AGENTS.md` -- and Goose can still pick them up. Configure the `CONTEXT_FILE_NAMES` setting!
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