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An AI assistant for Datasette, see agent.datasette.io.

2026

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staff. I think this is because OpenAI and Anthropic have both found product-market fit.

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4:38 pm / 27th May 2026 / ai, datasette, openai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, llm-pricing, coding-agents, claude-code, codex, claude-cowork, november-2025-inflection, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent 0.1a4

Taking advantage of the new makeJumpSections() JavaScript plugin hook added in Datasette 1.0a30, datasette-agent now presents this "Start a new agent chat" interface as part of the Jump to menu, any time you hit /:

Animated demo - this time the demo starts on agent.datasette.io and when the menu opens it has a new Start chat box below the search box - entering 'count entries' and hitting the button causes it to start an agent conversation that counts the number of entries and returns 3300.

You can try this out by signing into agent.datasette.io using your GitHub account.

24th May 2026, 11:19 pm · datasette, datasette-agent

Datasette Agent

Visit Datasette Agent

We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I’ve been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent represents the moment that LLM and Datasette finally come together. I’m really excited about it!

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7:52 pm / 21st May 2026 / projects, sqlite, ai, datasette, generative-ai, llms, llm, uv, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0

A Datasette Agent plugin for running commands in a Fly Sprites sandbox.

21st May 2026, 6:21 pm · sandboxing, datasette, fly, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2
  • "View SQL query" buttons below rendered charts.
21st May 2026, 3:15 pm · datasette, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent 0.1a3
  • "View SQL query" buttons for both visible tables and collapsed SQL result tool calls.
  • Don't display empty reasoning chunks
  • Improved handling of truncated responses - table still displays to the user even if the SQL results were truncated when showing the agent.

See Datasette Agent, an extensible AI assistant for Datasette.

21st May 2026, 3:04 pm · datasette, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1
  • More color! Bar and waffle charts without a color column are shaded by magnitude with a sequential color scheme; color columns holding text values use the observable10 categorical scheme. #2
  • Now checks execute-sql permission before running the query to find the column names.
  • Charts now display interactive tooltips.
  • Fixed a bug where waffleY charts were not described to the agent.
20th May 2026, 2:52 pm · datasette, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent 0.1a2
  • Tool availability can now be attached to a required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the new datasette-agent-background permission. #10
15th May 2026, 12:03 am · datasette, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent 0.1a1
  • Now uses the execute-sql permission when deciding which tables to list to the user. #8
14th May 2026, 10:01 pm · datasette, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent-openai-imagegen 0.1a1 — Generate images in Datasette Agent
12th May 2026, 10:03 pm · datasette, openai, text-to-image, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent-charts 0.1a0 — Observable Plot charts for Datasette Agent
12th May 2026, 9:41 pm · datasette, observable-plot, datasette-agent
Release datasette-agent 0.1a0
  • Initial (silent) alpha release.
12th May 2026, 9:29 pm · datasette, datasette-agent

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