ctrl-c kills goose instead of stops the current operation

[kornpow]

Using the latest version of Goose 1.3 the behavior of ctrl-c has changed. Previously ctrl-c allowed me to stop the agent and redirect it in a different direction if it is going off-course. Now ctrl-c kills goose completely which causes me to lose my context.

^Czsh: terminated  goose

I would like the previous behavior back, or if there is a better way to achieve what I am looking to do, please let me know!

[kornpow]

2025-08-12T18:37:45.149778Z ERROR goose::session::storage: Failed to generate session description: Request failed: Failed to parse response: Request failed: Request failed with status: 402 Payment Required
  at crates/goose/src/session/storage.rs:1303

Session ended with error: Failed to generate session description

Running out of money mid-session also killed my session, causing me to waste more money re-creating the context.

[michaelneale]

thanks @kornpow I thought I was insane for noticing it myself but no one mentioning - but yeah, it did not used to do that.

FYI you can use --resume (and it continues on - with prompt caching etc) even if it dies (each interaction is essentially stateless so makes no difference)

[michaelneale]

edit Fix is below thanks to @jamadeo (missed it before)

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I think control + C should always interrupt, with gemini, claude code etc, they all do this, so should consider that (and ability to redirect/add/queue up more input vs just quitting).

It also used to gracefully exit, and show the session id at the end, vs a hard terminate.

[michaelneale]

eg control C always exiting:

only ever exits like that for me, also (in the middle of doing a tool call):

I am sure it did not used to be like this, but haven't been able to bisect to where

[michaelneale]

ah missed it, this fixes it: #4026 (but worried how that works on windows).

edit: should be ok on windows, as it is no-op and should be no different to before?

[kornpow]

thanks for looking into this! <3 I will definitely try out the resume flag as well