On September 1, 2026, Simon Willison released the datasette-mcp toolkit version 0.2. This update primarily added full support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling datasette to operate as an MCP server. The release aimed to enhance datasette’s integration capabilities with external AI agents and large language models, allowing users to invoke its data querying and visualization functions through standard protocols.
datasette-mcp 0.2 "rows" version has been released. The `execute_sql` method now returns rows as object arrays instead of arrays. This change aims to help the model accurately associate columns with data elements. This plugin is the first non-alpha version, requiring mcp >= 2.1.1.