Simon Willison Releases Datasette Agent 0.1a3 — AI Assistant for SQLite Databases

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Simon Willison released Datasette Agent 0.1a3 on May 21, 2026, an extensible AI assistant plugin for Datasette that provides a conversational interface for querying and visualizing SQLite data. Built on the LLM Python library, it supports hundreds of tool-calling models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and local open-weight models. Additional plugins add charting (datasette-agent-charts) and sprite generation. A live demo is available at agent.datasette.io.