Simon Willison’s Weblog
This is a significant release of Datasette Agent . The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from Datasette, for example a table or query page.
When combined with datasette-apps this means you can prompt a database-backed app into existence and then modify it from the chat that sits next to that app.
You can try it by signing in with your GitHub account to agent.datasette.io .
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This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd November 2026 .
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