Block open sources Berd, a desktop app for AI agent management

Block just dropped another piece of its AI toolkit into the open. Berd, a native desktop application designed to give teams a single interface for managing AI agents, files, skills, and sessions, is now available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. The app was originally built for Block’s internal teams. Now anyone can grab it, run it, and see how a $40B+ fintech company organizes its AI workflow. Though “anyone can grab it” comes with a caveat: external pull requests are not accepted, so this is more of a “look and use” situation than a true community project. What Berd actually does The app is built on Tauri 2 and React 19, which means it’s a lightweight native application rather than another bloated Electron wrapper eating your RAM for breakfast. It runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Under the hood, Berd connects to Block’s Goose AI agent framework through ACP WebSocket. Goose is the real engine here. Berd is essentially the dashboard you use to drive it. For context, Goose launched on January 28, 2025, and has since accumulated more than 45,000 GitHub stars with over 500 contributors. The framework supports more than 15 LLM providers and over 70 MCP extensions, making it on...