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Documents goose’s tool output summarization behavior and how to tune it via a new environment variable, helping users manage context/token usage in longer sessions.
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- Added a “Tool Output Summarization” tip to the Smart Context Management guide.
- Documented the
GOOSE_TOOL_CALL_CUTOFFenvironment variable (including an example) in the Environment Variables guide.
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| documentation/docs/guides/sessions/smart-context-management.md | Adds a tip explaining background summarization of older tool outputs and points readers to the tuning env var. |
| documentation/docs/guides/environment-variables.md | Adds GOOSE_TOOL_CALL_CUTOFF to the Session Management table and provides an example value for verbose/debug workflows. |
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…tensions-deeplinks * 'main' of github.com:block/goose: [docs] update authors.yaml file (#7114) Implement manpage generation for goose-cli (#6980) docs: tool output optimization (#7109) Fix duplicated output in Code Mode by filtering content by audience (#7117) Enable tom (Top Of Mind) platform extension by default (#7111) chore: added notification for canary build failure (#7106) fix: fix windows bundle random failure and optimise canary build (#7105) feat(acp): add model selection support for session/new and session/set_model (#7112) fix: isolate claude-code sessions via stream-json session_id (#7108) ci: enable agentic provider live tests (claude-code, codex, gemini-cli) (#7088) docs: codex subscription support (#7104) chore: add a new scenario (#7107) fix: Goose Desktop missing Calendar and Reminders entitlements (#7100) Fix 'Edit In Place' and 'Fork Session' features (#6970) Fix: Only send command content to command injection classifier (excluding part of tool call dict) (#7082) Docs: require auth optional for custom providers (#7098) fix: improve text-muted contrast for better readability (#7095) Always sync bundled extensions (#7057)
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* origin/main: feat: add AGENT=goose environment variable for cross-tool compatibility (#7017) fix: strip empty extensions array when deeplink also (#7096) [docs] update authors.yaml file (#7114) Implement manpage generation for goose-cli (#6980) docs: tool output optimization (#7109) Fix duplicated output in Code Mode by filtering content by audience (#7117) Enable tom (Top Of Mind) platform extension by default (#7111) chore: added notification for canary build failure (#7106) fix: fix windows bundle random failure and optimise canary build (#7105) feat(acp): add model selection support for session/new and session/set_model (#7112) fix: isolate claude-code sessions via stream-json session_id (#7108) ci: enable agentic provider live tests (claude-code, codex, gemini-cli) (#7088) docs: codex subscription support (#7104) chore: add a new scenario (#7107) fix: Goose Desktop missing Calendar and Reminders entitlements (#7100) Fix 'Edit In Place' and 'Fork Session' features (#6970) Fix: Only send command content to command injection classifier (excluding part of tool call dict) (#7082) # Conflicts: # crates/goose/src/agents/extension.rs
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* origin/main: (30 commits) docs: GCP Vertex AI org policy filtering & update OnboardingProviderSetup component (#7125) feat: replace subagent and skills with unified summon extension (#6964) feat: add AGENT=goose environment variable for cross-tool compatibility (#7017) fix: strip empty extensions array when deeplink also (#7096) [docs] update authors.yaml file (#7114) Implement manpage generation for goose-cli (#6980) docs: tool output optimization (#7109) Fix duplicated output in Code Mode by filtering content by audience (#7117) Enable tom (Top Of Mind) platform extension by default (#7111) chore: added notification for canary build failure (#7106) fix: fix windows bundle random failure and optimise canary build (#7105) feat(acp): add model selection support for session/new and session/set_model (#7112) fix: isolate claude-code sessions via stream-json session_id (#7108) ci: enable agentic provider live tests (claude-code, codex, gemini-cli) (#7088) docs: codex subscription support (#7104) chore: add a new scenario (#7107) fix: Goose Desktop missing Calendar and Reminders entitlements (#7100) Fix 'Edit In Place' and 'Fork Session' features (#6970) Fix: Only send command content to command injection classifier (excluding part of tool call dict) (#7082) Docs: require auth optional for custom providers (#7098) ...
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Summary
This PR documents the tool output summarization feature.
Documentation updates:
documentation/docs/guides/sessions/smart-context-management.md:documentation/docs/guides/environment-variables.md:GOOSE_TOOL_CALL_CUTOFFenvironment variable to the "Session Management" tableType of Change
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