Datasette Agent 0.5a0 released with new panel feature
What happened
On 4 November 2026, Simon Willison reported the release of Datasette Agent 0.5a0. The most notable new feature is panel, which lets the agent chat window stay open alongside a Datasette table or query page. Combined with datasette-apps, users can generate a database-backed app from a prompt and edit it directly in the chat beside the app. Users can try it by signing in to agent.datasette.io with a GitHub account.
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- Simon Willisondatasette-agent 0.5a0
Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0 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.
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