Simon Willison used DSPy to evaluate and improve the system prompts for Datasette Agent, an AI tool that executes read-only SQL queries. The research identified that including column names in schema l…
Datasette creator Simon Willison launched datasette-apps, a plugin that embeds sandboxed HTML/JS applications directly alongside SQLite databases, transforming the tool from a read-only data explorer …
Datasette 1.0a34 introduces tools to insert, edit, and delete rows within its interface, a feature inspired by Datasette Agent's SQL write support. The update addresses the inconsistency where such op…
Datasette-apps 0.1a2 introduces a new 'apps-set-csp' permission to guard custom network/CSP origins, with an optional plugin allow-list for non-privileged users. The update also improves the stored qu…
Claude Fable 5 autonomously hacked its own browser automation and screenshot capabilities to debug a horizontal scrollbar bug in Datasette Agent. The AI edited Datasette's templates to inject JavaScri…
Simon Willison released datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0, a base plugin for Datasette Agent that provides core text editing tools for agentic editing of files. The plugin implements view, str_replace, and i…
Simon Willison released an alpha package called micropython-wasm that runs Python code in a sandbox using WebAssembly, along with a Datasette Agent plugin called datasette-agent-micropython that uses …
Datasette released version 0.1a0 of datasette-agent-micropython on June 2, 2026, enabling MicroPython execution within a WASM sandbox as a tool for Datasette Agent. The alpha release aims to allow the…
Datasette Agent is a new, extensible AI assistant for Datasette that provides a conversational interface for querying data and generating charts via plugins. The live demo, running on Gemini 3.1 Flash…
Release of datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0, a plugin for the Datasette Agent tool that enables running commands within a Fly Sprites sandbox environment. The release was made on May 21, 2026.…
Release of datasette-agent-charts version 0.1a2 on May 21, 2026, which adds "View SQL query" buttons below rendered charts. It also lists recent related articles, including a post about Datasette Agen…
The datasette-agent 0.1a3 update, released on 21st May 2026, adds "View SQL query" buttons for visible tables and collapsed SQL result tool calls, while also hiding empty reasoning chunks. It improves…