datasette-agent 0.2a0 Released: Tools Can Ask Users Questions During Execution
Simon Willison's Weblog3 days agoReleasedatasette-agent 0.2a0 lets tools ask users questions during execution through ToolContext. Unanswered questions suspend the agent turn, render as chat UI forms, and persist across server restarts. A new save_query tool can store agent-written SQL as a Datasette saved query, but only after explicit human approval.
datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0
Simon Willison's Weblog6 days agoReleaseSimon Willison released datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 as a base plugin for Datasette Agent. It is intended to support future plugins that edit existing text, including collaborative Markdown, large SQL queries, and SVG files. The design follows Claude’s text editor tool pattern, exposing view, str_replace, and insert primitives so other plugins can reuse a stricter editing workflow.
Reve 2 and Ideogram 4: Layouts in Imagegen
Latent Space10 days agoReleaseLatent Space’s roundup frames image composition as a major barrier now being tackled by layout-aware image models. Reve 2.0 emphasizes precise generation and editing with layouts, while Ideogram 4.0 uses bounding boxes tied to region descriptions. The issue also covers MAI-Thinking-1, Gemma 4 12B, open audio models, agent execution layers, and model-routing cost debates.