--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "abbb96cf14716a168d8896a47f6e56f40f84940bb7862f38c7f2421c72f9eb4d" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/abbb96cf?lang=en" title: "datasette-agent 0.5a0" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-11-03T23:13:45.000Z" category: "Tools" topics: ["agent","devtools"] source_urls: ["https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/datasette-agent/"] summary: "Datasette Agent 0.5a0 has been released with a new panel feature that allows the agent to chat alongside Datasette pages such as tables or query pages. When combined with datasette-apps, users can prompt a database-backed app into existence and modify it from the adjacent chat. The release is available by signing in with a GitHub account to agent.datasette.io." --- # datasette\-agent 0\.5a0 > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-11-03T23:13:45.000Z **Category:** Tools **Topics:** agent, devtools ## Summary Datasette Agent 0\.5a0 has been released with a new panel feature that allows the agent to chat alongside Datasette pages such as tables or query pages\. When combined with datasette\-apps, users can prompt a database\-backed app into existence and modify it from the adjacent chat\. The release is available by signing in with a GitHub account to agent\.datasette\.io\. ## Sources - [Story source]()