10 commits landed across Goose (block/goose) in the last 3 hours, and the theme is model-compatibility and streaming correctness. benthecarman, Ellen Blaine, Theofanis Petkos, Yashas Gunderia, Michael Neale, and dependabot all show up in the batch.
What Changed
DeepSeek thinking survives tool calls (#10366). fix: preserve reasoning_content for DeepSeek thinking mode on multi-turn tool calls (benthecarman) keeps the model’s reasoning trace intact when a tool call interrupts a multi-turn conversation. Without it, DeepSeek’s chain-of-thought dropped out the moment a tool ran, leaving later turns context-blind.
Empty finish_reason is no longer terminal (#10258). fix: treat empty-string finish_reason as non-terminal in streaming (benthecarman) stops Goose from prematurely ending a stream when a provider sends an empty finish_reason mid-chunk — a classic cause of truncated responses from providers that stream partial stops.
Timezone-explicit prompt timestamps (#10209). fix(prompt): make prompt timestamps timezone-explicit (Ellen Blaine) stamps prompts with an explicit timezone so logs and replayed sessions don’t drift between UTC and local time.
Compact no longer dies during approval (#10089). Fix/compact disabled during approval (Theofanis Petkos) re-enables context compaction that was being suppressed while a tool-approval prompt was open — a memory leak waiting to happen on long sessions.
Plus the build and test hygiene. fix(ui): restore pnpm 11 project configuration (#10395, Yashas Gunderia) fixes a broken install path, test: drop unavailable and preview Gemini smoke models (#10355, Michael Neale) trims flaky CI, and dependabot bumped docker/login-action, step-security/harden-runner, actions/cache, and dorny/paths-filter.
Why It Matters
Goose is a Rust agent that prides itself on running any model — and these fixes are exactly what “runs any model” costs. DeepSeek’s thinking mode and providers that stream empty stop reasons are two of the most common ways a generic agent silently breaks on a non-OpenAI backend. For the broader “why a Rust core matters for agent reliability” angle, our Goose Rust agent breakdown covers the architectural bet behind these patches.
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