Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0
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3rd November 2026
Release
datasette-agent 0.5a0 — An LLM-powered agent for Datasette
This is a significant release of Datasette Agent. The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from Datasette, for example a table or query page.
When combined with datasette-apps this means you can prompt a database-backed app into existence and then modify it from the chat that sits next to that app.
You can try it by signing in with your GitHub account to agent.datasette.io.
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