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Simon Willison updates open-source LLM tools

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Simon Willison has released updates for his open-source Python tools, datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant. Version 0.1a8 of datasette-llm fixes a bug related to collecting chains of responses within the llm_prompt_context hook. The datasette-llm-accountant tool, now at version 0.1a4, also addresses a bug concerning the tracking of response chains. AI

IMPACT Minor tooling improvement for developers working with LLMs.

RANK_REASON Software tool update with minor bug fixes.

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Simon Willison updates open-source LLM tools

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 Italiano(IT) ·

    datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-llm-accountant/releases/tag/0.1a4">datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Fixed bug tracking chains of responses. Refs <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-llm/issues/7">…

  2. Simon Willison TIER_1 Italiano(IT) ·

    datasette-llm 0.1a8

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-llm/releases/tag/0.1a8">datasette-llm 0.1a8</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Fix for bug where <code>llm_prompt_context()</code> hook did not fully collect chains of responses. #7</li> </ul> </blockquote>

  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4 https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/datasette-llm-accountant/#atom-everything # Python # OpenSource # AI

    datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4 https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/datasette-llm-accountant/#atom-everything # Python # OpenSource # AI

    LINKS simonwillison.net/…/datasette-llm-account…

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