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.
Related concepts
Where Artifacts shows up
2 articlesArtifacts let Claude produce standalone outputs — documents, code, charts — outside the chat. Here is when they matter and how to get the most from them.
Announced September 16, 2026 alongside the Cowork merge. Ask for a document and you and Claude write it together in a live editor. Ask for a presentation and Claude drafts the slides — editable in place, presentable from Claude, downloadable as PowerPoint or PDF. Beta, paid plans, and Enterprise admins decide when it turns on.