Simon Willison Releases Datasette Agent — Open-Source AI Assistant for SQLite Databases

Summary

Simon Willison released Datasette Agent on May 21, an open-source plugin that adds a conversational AI assistant on top of Datasette, his SQLite data exploration tool. Datasette Agent integrates Willison's LLM Python library and CLI into Datasette's UI, exposing hundreds of tool-calling models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, plus open-weight models like Qwen 3.5 running locally) as the reasoning layer for natural-language database queries. Version 0.1a4, released May 24, integrates the agent