datasette-agent 0.2a0

Simon Willison's AI Notes published: Release: datasette-agent 0.2a0 Highlights from the release notes: Tools can now ask the user questions mid-execution. Tools that declare a context parameter receive a ToolContext object, and await context.ask_user(...) can ask a yes/no, multiple-choice ( options=[...] ) or free-text ( free_text=True ) question. While a question is unanswered the agent turn suspends: the question renders as a form in the chat UI and persists to the internal database, so suspended conversations survive a server restart. Once answered, the tool re-executes from the top with stored answers replayed, so call ask_user() before performing side effects. #20 New built-in save_query tool: the agent can save SQL it has written as a Datasette stored query . Saving always requires human approval - the agent shows the full SQL plus the proposed name, database and visibility, and nothing is stored until you click Yes. #20 The ask_user() feature was enabled by the new LLM alpha I built yesterday with the help of Claude Fable 5. Tags: ai , datasette , generative-ai , llms , datasette-agent