datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0
The Datasette Agent is being developed with several plugins to enable editing of existing text, including collaborative Markdown editing and updating SQL queries. The plugins will utilize a base plugin called datasette-agent-edit, which implements core tools for editing text. This base plugin is designed to be adaptable for various other plugins, streamlining the development process.
- ▪The Datasette Agent is being developed with several plugins for editing text.
- ▪The datasette-agent-edit plugin implements core tools for editing text.
- ▪The core tools include view, str_replace, and insert functions.
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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, 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…
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