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Simon Willison launches Datasette Agent AI assistant

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Simon Willison has released Datasette Agent, an extensible AI assistant designed to interact with data stored in Datasette. The agent allows users to ask conversational questions about their data, and with plugins, can generate charts or even images. It leverages models like Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for its operations and is designed to be highly extensible with new plugins, including those for image generation and code execution. AI

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IMPACT Enhances data interaction for users of the Datasette platform by providing a conversational interface and charting capabilities.

RANK_REASON This is a new product release for an existing software tool, not a frontier model release or significant industry-wide event.

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 Norsk(NO) ·

    Datasette Agent

    <p>We just <a href="https://datasette.io/blog/2026/datasette-agent/">announced the first release of Datasette Agent</a>, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I've been working on my <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/">LLM</a> Python library for just over three years now, …

  2. Simon Willison TIER_1 Français(FR) ·

    datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent-charts/releases/tag/0.1a2">datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>"View SQL query" buttons below rendered charts.</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwilliso…

  3. Simon Willison TIER_1 Italiano(IT) ·

    datasette-agent 0.1a3

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/releases/tag/0.1a3">datasette-agent 0.1a3</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>"View SQL query" buttons for both visible tables and collapsed SQL result tool calls.</li> <li>Don't display empty reasoning …

  4. Simon Willison TIER_1 Français(FR) ·

    datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent-charts/releases/tag/0.1a1">datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>More color! Bar and waffle charts without a color column are shaded by magnitude with a sequential color scheme…

  5. Simon Willison TIER_1 Italiano(IT) ·

    datasette-agent 0.1a2

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/releases/tag/0.1a2">datasette-agent 0.1a2</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Tool availability can now be attached to a <code>required_permission</code>. The default background agent tools now require t…

  6. Simon Willison TIER_1 Italiano(IT) ·

    datasette-agent 0.1a1

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/releases/tag/0.1a1">datasette-agent 0.1a1</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Now uses the <code>execute-sql</code> permission when deciding which tables to list to the user. #8</li> </ul> </blockquote> …

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