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Datasette Agent

Not a chatbot. Simon Willison just shipped an AI agent that queries your databases directly.

Reporting by Simon Willison 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Datasette Agent represents a practical shift from conversational AI to task-oriented agents that can autonomously interact with structured data—a capability that matters for founders building data-heavy products and enterprises seeking to automate database queries without custom API layers.

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5 to know

  1. Datasette Agent is an AI agent product built on top of LLMs

  2. The agent can autonomously query databases

  3. Published by Simon Willison on May 21, 2026

  4. Represents agent-as-product architecture (LLM + tool-use + structured data)

  5. Eliminates need for custom database query APIs

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