Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 coding agent autonomously debugged a horizontal scrollbar issue in developer Simon Willison's Datasette tool by launching browser automation, building test pages, and patchi…
Simon Willison released Datasette 1.0a33, a significant alpha toward a stable 1.0 that extends the `?_extra=` pattern to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. The new JSON extras feature is no…
On 11 June 2026, a developer released asyncinject 0.7, a utility library supporting an asyncio dependency injection pattern. The library, previously used with Datasette, had bugs identified and fixed …
Datasette-agent 0.2a0 was released, introducing tools that can ask users questions mid-execution via a new `ToolContext` object and `ask_user()` method. The release also adds a built-in `save_query` t…
Datasette 1.0a32 was released on May 31, 2026, as a minor bugfix update. The release addresses a bug with `INSERT ... RETURNING` queries through the new `/db/-/execute-write` endpoint and resolves sev…
Simon Willison successfully ran Python ASGI applications in a web browser using Pyodide and Service Workers, overcoming a four-year limitation in his Datasette Lite project where JavaScript in `<scrip…
Datasette-agent 0.1a4 has been released, integrating a new "Start a new agent chat" interface into the Jump to menu via the makeJumpSections() JavaScript plugin hook added in Datasette 1.0a30. The upd…
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…
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…
Release of datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0, a plugin for Datasette that works with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to enforce per-user or global spending limits on LLM usage. It provides an exam…
Creation of a blog using OpenAI Codex desktop, highlighting its Markdown session transcript export feature. It provides a link to the session that built the blog and references issue 179. The post is …
Script for a shell function called `gcm` that uses an AI model (Gemini) to automatically generate a one-line git commit message from the staged diff. The function allows users to accept, edit, regener…