Artifacts
Also: Claude Artifacts
Artifacts are self-contained outputs Claude creates in a dedicated side panel — not buried in chat. They can be documents (Word, PDF, Markdown), spreadsheets, presentations, working code, full HTML pages, SVG graphics, diagrams, or interactive React components with real logic. You can preview, copy, download, or iterate on them without leaving the conversation. The shareable version: publish an artifact publicly and anyone with the link can view and interact with it — no Claude account needed. They can also "remix" it, opening it in their own Claude to build on. On Team and Enterprise plans, sharing stays org-internal behind authentication.
In practice
You ask Claude to write a proposal and instead of getting text dumped into the chat, a formatted document appears in a side panel. You can edit it, copy it, or download it directly. That's an Artifact — Claude's output rendered as a usable, standalone object rather than just a chat response.
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