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datasette-llm 0.1a9

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. It now picks up the default model used by LLM , which means you can start using Datasette Agent without needing to explicitly configure a default model: uvx --with datasette-agent datasette content.db…

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