Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 (https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent-edit/releases/tag/0.1a0)

    I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - things like collaborative Markdown editing, updating large SQL queries, and editing SVG files.

Agentic editing of text is a little tricky to get right. My favorite published design for this is for the Claude text editor (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/text-editor-tool#use-the-text-editor-tool), which implements the following tools:

• view - view sections of a file, with line numbers added to every line.

• str_replace - find an exact old_str and replace it with new_str - fail if the original string is not unique

• insert - insert the specified text after the specified line number

Rather than recreate these patterns for every plugin that needs them I decided to create this base plugin, datasette-agent-edit, which implements the core tools in a way that allows them to be adapted for other plugins.

    Tags: ai (https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), datasette (https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette), generative-ai (https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), llms (https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), llm-tool-use (https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm-tool-use), datasette-agent (https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette-agent)