Datasette Agent 0.5a0 adds a side-panel chat
AI summary
Simon Willison’s Weblog reports that datasette-agent 0.5a0 adds a panel that lets the agent chat open and sit beside Datasette pages, such as tables and query pages. When combined with datasette-apps, users can prompt the creation of a database-backed app and then modify it through the chat beside the app.
In-depth insight
The panel brings agent chat alongside Datasette pages, while the datasette-apps integration enables app creation and modification from that adjacent chat.
Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0
Simon Willison’s Weblog
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3rd November 2026
Release datasette-agent 0.5a0 — An LLM-powered agent for Datasette