Simon Willison Ships datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 — Letting Agents Edit Data Inside Datasette

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On June 7, Willison released datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0, extending his Datasette Agent line so AI agents can perform structured data edits, alongside his ongoing micropython-wasm sandbox work for running untrusted agent code. It's another entry in his real-time builder's journal of stitching agents into existing developer tooling rather than building greenfield agent apps. Low individual significance, but the cumulative pattern — sandbox + edit primitives — maps the plumbing practitioners actually need to let agents touch data safely.