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Tools2026-06-19 · source-backed
Willison launched datasette-apps (0.1a2) on June 18, hosting self-contained HTML+JS apps in a sandboxed iframe that run SQL against your data, read-only by default. He frames it as "Claude Artifacts reimagined for Datasette," artifacts backed by a JSON API to a relational database instead of ephemeral state. The plugin has no LLM dependency, but the create-app form ships a copyable prompt pre-loaded with your schema so a model can one-shot a working data app. It's a concrete pattern for turning throwaway LLM artifacts into persistent, data-backed internal tools. The Anthropic and Willison releases landing the same day, both solving the artifact-persistence problem, is not a coincidence.
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