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Datasette Agent 0.4a0 and Datasette-apps 0.2a0 released with browser execution and app management tools

Feature update Provisional 85% confidence first seen 31 July 2026, 14:14

Simon Willison released version 0.4a0 of datasette-agent, introducing a new await context.browser_task() mechanism that allows agent tools to execute JavaScript directly in the user's browser. Simultaneously, datasette-apps 0.2a0 was released with new tools including app_debug() for running JavaScript in hidden iframes and app_list() for discovering editable applications, enabling automated application testing and smoke testing capabilities.

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31 Jul, 14:14 datasette-agent 0.4a0 Simon Willison 1 Aug, 21:23 datasette-apps 0.2a0 Simon Willison

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The story of AI in August 2026 is one of consolidation meeting enforcement. Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a million-token context window, arrives as a direct challenge to OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier offerings—priced at $2 per million input tokens, it's positioning itself as the capable-and-cheaper alternative that China's AI push has long promised. But the more consequential development is structural: enterprises are finally getting the plumbing to actually deploy these models. June, backed by Salesforce's Marc Benioff, raised $20 million to automate AI integration into legacy systems, scanning corporate infrastructure and generating deployment workflows without expensive consultant fees. This solves what's become clear as the real bottleneck—not model capability, but implementation friction in messy, heterogeneous corporate environments.

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Datasette Agent 0.4a0 and Datasette-apps 0.2a0 released with browser execution and app management tools

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