feat: add tips of the day for new sessions

src/goose/cli/session.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import traceback
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
+import random
 
 from exchange import Message, ToolResult, ToolUse, Text
 from prompt_toolkit.shortcuts import confirm
@@ -27,6 +28,30 @@
 RESUME_MESSAGE = "I see we were interrupted. How can I help you?"
 
 
+TIPS = [
+    "Tell goose how to run tests so it can verify any changes. eg 'please run make test to verify any changes'",
+    "Tell goose if you have any developer docs like CONTRIBUTING.md so it can learn how to build and help you.",
+    "Goose likes to know what programming language you are working in to get started.",
+    "You can ask goose to confirm commands with you if you like.",
+    "Try this: 'In this golang project, I want you to add open telemetry to help me get "
+    + "started with it. run the `just test` command to check things work.'",
+    "If you are working in a git repo, you can stage and commit changes "
+    + "(or ask goose to) as you go to not loose any work.",
+    "You can ask goose to try almost any task, "
+    + "it likes to write and execute scripts as well as help you sort out your environment.",
+    "Tell goose what directories you want to work in (this can be your main directory, "
+    + "but you can tell it to look elsewhere it needs to)",
+    "With the screen toolkit, goose can look at your screen and help you make visual changes.",
+    "You can run more than one goose at a time (in different terminals or IDEs).",
+    "Ask goose to write a unit test for some code and check it works.",
+    "Ask goose to add some new feature or function by telling it to look at similar existing functionality.",
+    "You can use goose to analyse data as well, it can write scripts and evaluate them against your data.",
+    "Ask goose to recommend a tool to use, and it can offer to install it as well.",
+    "Start by asking goose to run your tests for you and it will report back.",
+    "If you have broken tests, ask goose to help you either fix the tests or the broken code.",
+]
+
+
 def load_provider() -> str:
     # We try to infer a provider, by going in order of what will auth
     providers = load_plugins(group="exchange.provider")
@@ -111,8 +136,14 @@ def __init__(
                 messages.append(Message.assistant(RESUME_MESSAGE))
             self.exchange.messages.extend(messages)
 
-        if len(self.exchange.messages) == 0 and plan:
-            self.setup_plan(plan=plan)
+        if len(self.exchange.messages) == 0:
+            # Show tips of the day for new sessions
+            random_tips = random.sample(TIPS, k=2)
+            formatted_tips = "\n    ".join(random_tips)
+            print(f"Tips of the day:\n    [yellow]{formatted_tips}[/yellow]")
+
+            if plan:
+                self.setup_plan(plan=plan)
 
         self.prompt_session = GoosePromptSession.create_prompt_session()
 

src/goose/toolkit/developer.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class Developer(Toolkit):
 
     def system(self) -> str:
         """Retrieve system configuration details for developer"""
-        hints_path = Path('.goosehints')
+        hints_path = Path(".goosehints")
         system_prompt = Message.load("prompts/developer.jinja").text
         if hints_path.is_file():
             goosehints = hints_path.read_text()

tests/toolkit/test_developer.py

@@ -68,5 +68,3 @@ def test_write_file(temp_dir, developer_toolkit):
     content = "Hello World"
     developer_toolkit.write_file(test_file.as_posix(), content)
     assert test_file.read_text() == content
-
-