Simon Willison Ships Showboat CLI and datasette-agent — New Toolchain for AI Agent Document Publishing
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Simon Willison released Showboat, a CLI tool that helps coding agents create and incrementally publish Markdown documents to Datasette instances, alongside datasette-agent on May 15. He also built the new Datasette blog using OpenAI Codex desktop's Markdown session transcript export, continuing his pattern of using every AI coding tool in production within days of launch. The Showboat/datasette-agent combination represents a builder-first approach to agent observability.