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Simon Willison's AI-Augmented Datasette Ecosystem: Agent, Apps, and Plugins

Synthesis history

4 versions, newest first.

  1. Version 4 2026-06-25 18:25 UTC · 59 items

    Three substantive new developments this pass. Datasette 1.0a35 (June 23) introduces schema-editing interfaces and formalizes the template context as a stable API until Datasette 2.0 [^33287], marking the most significan…

  2. Version 3 2026-06-23 18:18 UTC · 54 items

    Two substantively new items this pass: sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 (June 21) adds a migrations system and nested transaction support, expanding Willison's SQLite tooling ecosystem [^32287]. A vibe-coding experiment (June 22) ha…

  3. Version 2 2026-06-20 18:14 UTC · 47 items

    datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1 (May 20) is newly identified as part of the ecosystem, adding chart generation to the agent toolset. datasette-apps reached 0.1a3. Two items tangential to the Datasette plugins are new: Will…

  4. Version 1 2026-06-19 08:11 UTC · 37 items

    Simon Willison is building a cluster of AI-native plugins for Datasette, his open-source SQLite data tool. The active components as of mid-June 2026 are datasette-agent (an LLM-powered assistant that can now execute wri…