MinuteLaunch FluentMCP Now Supports Goose Desktop

Why Goose Desktop Matters

Goose is a desktop agentic tool that gives you the same MCP connectivity as Cursor and Claude Desktop. The critical difference is cost. Claude Desktop starts at seventeen dollars a month and goes up to two hundred for the Max plan. Cursor has its own subscription tiers. Goose is free. You bring your own OpenRouter key – put five dollars in if you want – and you get a comparable experience with no requirement to join their subscription program. For anyone watching their budget or managing multiple sites, this changes the math completely.

Setting Up the MinuteLaunch Plugin Manager

I demonstrated on a fresh demo site on InstaWP. The starting point is always the same: install the MinuteLaunch Plugin Manager. You can download it from minutelaunch.com/ml. Once installed, the plugin manager needs to be activated on our server side – normally this happens automatically when you purchase a subscription. After activation, refresh the page and you can start toggling on the components you need.

For this setup, you need two things enabled: FluentMCP and FluentMCP Pro. There are other options available if you are using the full setup, but these two are the minimum for connecting a desktop agent to your site.

API Keys and OpenRouter

At the bottom of the MinuteLaunch Plugin Manager, there is an API Key Manager. Click “Sync from Server” and it pulls in the key we provide in your onboarding email. This OpenRouter key is yours to use – we measure and track usage, and up to a reasonable amount you are good to go. You can also get your own Noun Project and SERP keys for free using the links in your onboarding email. If you are on the fully hosted version, we provide everything automatically.

The New Goose Desktop Install Option

In the FluentMCP Setup and Install page, there is now a third installation option alongside Cursor and Claude Desktop: Goose Desktop. The config format is slightly different from the JSON files used by Cursor and Claude, but the process is straightforward.

First, download Goose from block.github.io/goose – available on Mac or PC. Once installed, you need to find and edit the YAML config file. On Windows, I found mine at the root of my user directory under AppData/Roaming/block/goose/config/config.yaml. The file looks similar to what you would expect from a config.json – just in YAML format.

Copy the config information from the FluentMCP setup page and paste it into your YAML file above the “goose provider” entries at the bottom. Save the file, restart Goose, and your site connection should be active.

Verifying the Connection

When Goose restarts, you can check the Extensions panel to see the available tool groupings: Fluent Cart, Fluent Community Core, Fluent Community Learning, Fluent CRM, and Fluent MCP WordPress. Toggle off any you are not using, or leave them all enabled – it makes no difference. Start a chat and ask Goose to confirm it can see your site. Once connected, you have full access to the same MCP tools available through Cursor and Claude Desktop.

Multiple Sites and Licensing

Jim asked how to use this on multiple sites. You can add more extensions in Goose to connect to additional sites – I would not recommend twenty, but a handful works fine. We offer one license per site because we include the OpenRouter API keys. If you want to use your own OpenRouter key, you can install FluentMCP on as many sites as you want with no restrictions.

The content produced by the AI can go anywhere regardless of the connection. If Goose generates HTML for your pages or posts, you can copy and paste it to any site manually or push it through the automatic MCP connection. Think of it as your universal brain – one desktop agent producing content for multiple sites.

Built-In Alternatives: SimpleSite AI and Coach

You do not have to use an external desktop agent at all. If you enable SimpleSite on your site, the AI assistant is already connected and ready to produce content using Sonnet or Opus. Coach gives your customers a front-end AI experience. Both work with the same OpenRouter key. The desktop agents like Goose, Cursor, and Claude Desktop are additional options for people who want to work from their local machine rather than inside the WordPress admin.