Overview

Simon Willison released two new Showboat companion tools that expand how coding agents can create and share live documentation. Chartroom provides CLI charting capabilities, while datasette-showboat enables real-time publishing of agent-generated documents.

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Changes by Version

v0.6.0

  • Added remote publishing feature - documents can now stream updates to web servers in real-time via environment variable configuration
  • Added POST API endpoint support - Showboat commands automatically send document fragments to configured remote URLs
  • Added multipart form upload for images via showboat image command

New Tools

  • Added Chartroom CLI tool - creates charts that integrate seamlessly with Showboat documentation workflow
  • Added datasette-showboat plugin - enables incremental publishing of Showboat documents to Datasette instances
  • Added live document streaming - coding agents can now publish work-in-progress documentation that updates in real-time