Remote extension with a header

Use Forkmate in Goose

Goose adds remote extensions with custom request headers. Make a Forkmate key, add the extension with your key in the Authorization header, and Goose can log your meals.

Needs a key. Goose runs on your computer, so it connects with a personal key instead of a sign-in. Make a key in Forkmate · How keys work

No Forkmate account yet? Create one free first. It takes under a minute. You make your key there.

Example: in Goose, with Forkmate connected

I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.

Logged to Forkmate229 kcal

Egg, whole, cooked, hard-boiled · 2 large eggs (100 g)Bread, white · 1 slice (28 g)

Logged. Want me to total today so far?

Set up Forkmate in Goose

Forkmate’s server URL

https://mcp.forkmate.ai/

Streamable HTTP, with your personal key in the Authorization header.

Make a keyIn Forkmate, open Settings → Keys for local apps (https://app.forkmate.ai/#keys), name the key after Goose, pick when it expires and click Make key. Copy it: Forkmate shows it once. How keys work: forkmate.ai/connect/keys/.
Add the extensionIn Goose Desktop open Extensions → Add custom extension, choose Streamable HTTP and enter https://mcp.forkmate.ai/ as the endpoint. Under Request Headers, add Authorization with the value Bearer fmk_your_key_here (your key), click +, then Add Extension. In the CLI, run goose configure → Add Extension → Remote Extension (Streamable HTTP) and say yes when it asks to add custom headers.
Give your OK onceThe first time you log, Forkmate asks once for your OK to store your food diary. Agree the way it asks, in the chat or through the link it gives you to agree on the web, then log the meal again if it wasn’t saved.
Log your first mealIn Goose, say “I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.” It logs the meal with calories and macros to your Forkmate diary.

~/.config/goose/config.yaml

extensions:
  forkmate:
    name: Forkmate
    type: streamable_http
    uri: https://mcp.forkmate.ai/
    headers:
      Authorization: Bearer fmk_your_key_here
    enabled: true
    timeout: 300

The key is uri, not url.

What you need

A free Forkmate account (sign up). There is no paid plan.
A current Goose. Goose is now developed under the Agentic AI Foundation; its docs moved to goose-docs.ai.

Checked October 9, 2026 against these sources: Goose docs: using extensions, Goose docs: a remote extension with a header. Goose changes its menus often; if yours looks different, trust what it shows.

What to say first

Talk to Goose the way you’d tell a friend:

“I had two eggs and toast for breakfast.”
“How many calories have I had today?”
“Make the toast two slices.”
“What did I eat this week?”

It logs the meal with calories, protein, carbs and fat to your diary at app.forkmate.ai.

Good to know in Goose

Turning Forkmate on mid-session affects only that chat. Turn it on under Extensions to make it the default.
Goose runs tools without asking by default. Set a permission mode if you want to approve each meal.

Checked October 8, 2026 against Goose docs: using extensions.

Forkmate shortcuts

Forkmate comes with ready-made requests for the everyday jobs: log a meal, fix the last entry, see what’s left today, log your usual, hit your protein, a weekly check-in. We haven’t found MCP shortcuts (prompts) in Goose’s menus or documentation, so type or paste the request instead.

Log a meal (log-meal)
“Log this to my Forkmate diary: two eggs and toast with butter”
Fix my last entry (fix-last-entry)
“Fix the last thing I logged in Forkmate: it was 2 eggs, not 3”
What's left today (today-so-far)
“Show me today so far in Forkmate: my calories, protein, carbs and fat.”
Log my usual (log-my-usual)
“Log my usual breakfast to Forkmate.”
Hit my protein today (hit-protein)
“How much protein have I had today in Forkmate, and how far am I from my target of 120 g? Suggest a few foods for my remaining meals and snacks that would close the gap, using my food profile and the foods I usually eat.”
Weekly check-in (week-review)
“Give me a check-in on my last 7 days in Forkmate (get_range): calories, protein, carbs and fat per day and on average, how many days I logged, and the foods I ate most.”
Move my MyFitnessPal history (import-myfitnesspal)
“How do I move my food diary history from MyFitnessPal to Forkmate? Walk me through exporting my data for free and importing it with the guided importer described at https://forkmate.ai/migrate-from-myfitnesspal/. Don't log anything yet.”
Give Forkmate feedback (give-feedback)
“I'd like to send feedback to Forkmate. Here is what I want to say, in my own words: "the oatmeal said 900 calories for one bowl" 1. If it isn't clear yet, ask me what it is about: a bug, a feature I'd like, a food or nutrition figure that looked wrong (or a food that was matched wrongly), or something else. 2. If something important is missing (for a wrong figure: which food and what looked wrong), ask me, and add my answer in my own words. 3. Show me the note exactly as it will be sent, with its category, and wait for me to confirm. Use my words, not a summary or a rewrite. Leave out health details I didn't ask to include. 4. Once I confirm, send it with send_feedback: `message` is my words (at most 4000 characters) and `category` is one of `bug`, `feature_request`, `food_data`, `other` (`food_data` for a wrong food or figure). 5. Then just tell me it was sent. Sending it changes nothing in my diary; if I also want a logged meal fixed, help me with that separately.”

Shortcut or not, Forkmate sends Goose the same logging rules when it connects: log your own words, keep your amounts, and look foods up before estimating.

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