Agent Mode in the DuckDB CLI 🤖 🦆 The #DuckDB v2.0 CLI has an agent mode that gets AI coding agents to a correct result faster and with fewer tokens. When the CLI detects an agent, it prints compact Markdown tables instead of padded boxes, says clearly when a result was cut, stops runaway queries early, and reports errors as JSON. Long queries announce their expected cost before they start, so the agent can decide whether to wait. Learn more in today’s blog post: duckdb.org/2026/10/09/agent-…

This Tuesday, we announced Quack, our new protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. Watch Hannes' talk, recorded at the AI Council, where he explained how Quack works in practice, what stack it's built on, how it performs, and what our long-term ambitions are.