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15th May 2026

Release datasette-agent 0.1a2 — An LLM-powered agent for Datasette

Tool availability can now be attached to a required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the new datasette-agent-background permission. #10

Posted 15th May 2026 at 12:03 am

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