Simon Willison released Datasette 1.0a31, a significant alpha release with two headline features: write SQL execution and stored queries. Users with the right permissions can now run database-changing queries and save queries privately or for other members of a Datasette instance. The new interface can generate templated insert, update, and delete queries for editable tables while blocking unauthorized actions such as creating tables without permission.
The post inspects @anthropic-ai/[email protected] and documents configuration fields not covered by the official docs. It highlights hook JSON responses, hidden skill and agent frontmatter, auto-mode rules, persistent memory, dream consolidation, Magic Docs, and permission syntax. The author frames these as practical but version-specific findings, with experimental fields especially likely to change.
Simon Willison has released version 0.1a1 — the latest early alpha — of `datasette-agent`, an AI agent plugin for his well-known open-source data exploration…