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24th May 2026

Release datasette-agent 0.1a4 — An LLM-powered agent for Datasette

Taking advantage of the new makeJumpSections() JavaScript plugin hook added in Datasette 1.0a30, datasette-agent now presents this "Start a new agent chat" interface as part of the Jump to menu, any time you hit /:

Animated demo - this time the demo starts on agent.datasette.io and when the menu opens it has a new Start chat box below the search box - entering 'count entries' and hitting the button causes it to start an agent conversation that counts the number of entries and returns 3300.

You can try this out by signing into agent.datasette.io using your GitHub account.

Posted 24th May 2026 at 11:19 pm

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