Artifacts

What it is

When Claude makes something — a React app, a document, a game, a slide deck — it opens in a panel beside the conversation rather than being pasted into it. You keep chatting, and Claude edits the artifact in place. Everything you make lands in the Artifacts gallery, which is also where other people’s artifacts arrive when they share one with you.

Artifacts work on the web and in the desktop app on every plan, in Cowork on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, and in Claude Code on every plan that includes Claude Code.

Where to find it

On desktop

• Sidebar → Artifacts — the gallery.
• Artifacts open in a panel beside the conversation when Claude builds one.

On the web

• claude.ai/artifacts — the gallery. (claude.ai/artifacts/my redirects here.)
• An individual artifact opens at claude.ai/code/artifact/{id} — under /code, not under /artifacts.

How to use it

Turn it on first

Artifacts need Code execution and file creation switched on. On Free, Pro and Max that’s Settings → Capabilities; on Team and Enterprise it’s Organization settings → Capabilities. Artifacts are no longer supported without it.

Make one

Design, Slides and Docs are artifact templates in beta on paid plans, enabled by default except on Enterprise. Start through Output, the Artifacts tab, or a request in chat. Docs supports direct collaborative editing and exports to Word, PDF, Markdown and Google Docs; Slides supports direct edits, presenting inside Claude and PowerPoint/PDF export. Mobile can request and view these outputs; editing, templates and sharing controls require web or desktop.

1. Ask Claude to build something — “make me a pomodoro timer”, “draft a one-pager on X”.
2. The artifact renders in the side panel as Claude generates it.
3. Iterate in chat: “make it blue”, “add a pause button”. Claude edits the same artifact.

The inspected gallery has Make something new cards for Docs (Beta), Slides (Beta) and Design (Beta), plus a type filter. It also displays a migration banner explaining that new Slides and Design projects are artifacts.

Find one later

The gallery header is a four-tab strip:

• All (the default) · Pinned · Yours · Shared with you.

Shared with you is the one worth knowing about — artifacts reach you from other people, not only from your own chats. There’s also Search your artifacts and a Grid view toggle beside the tabs.

Share an artifact

New artifacts start private. Open Share, choose access and copy the link. Viewers need a Claude account. Pro and Max support link access and specific invitations; Team and Enterprise external sharing depends on owner settings and artifact type. Docs cannot yet be shared outside a Team or Enterprise organization.

Legacy publishing

Chat artifacts made before 16 September 2026 are legacy artifacts. Their Publish or Share & copy link controls differ from the new Share flow. Public legacy artifacts can be opened without a Claude account. Unpublishing a legacy artifact permanently removes its stored data and prevents publishing that same artifact again. The old public-artifact walkthrough should not be used for new artifacts.

Comment on one

An open artifact carries Comment on this artifact and a presence avatar beside it — artifacts have comment threads and show who else is looking.

Connect an artifact to MCP tools

On Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, artifacts can call external services over the Model Context Protocol — reading from and writing to connectors, plus any custom MCP server you’ve configured. On first interaction you approve access, and the preference persists for later uses of that artifact.

Each person authenticates MCP servers independently, even on a shared or published artifact. Organisation admins can enable or disable artifact MCP access org-wide but cannot control which specific servers artifacts may use.

Build an AI-powered artifact

You can build artifacts that embed Claude itself — Q&A tools, coaches, games, personalised generators. You describe it, Claude writes it, and it runs on Anthropic’s infrastructure. Viewers sign in with their own Claude account and use their own instance, so usage counts against each viewer’s subscription limits, not yours — sharing costs the creator nothing however many people use it.

Good to know

• Persistent storage (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) lets an artifact keep data between sessions, up to 20 MB per artifact. It comes in two modes: personal storage, private to each user, and shared storage, where everyone sees the same data. New artifacts do not require publication for storage; legacy artifacts do, and unpublishing those permanently deletes their data.
• The gallery is the whole history. Everything you’ve made is there and searchable, and admins can manage some artifact settings at the organisation level.

What’s changed recently

• 2026-10-07 — Both galleries show Docs, Slides and Design Beta creation cards, a type filter and the Design migration banner. Individual artifact creation, sharing and editing were not exercised.

• 2026-10-07 — documentation review. Official guides distinguish new artifacts from legacy publishing and document Design, Slides and Docs templates. Corrected Claude Code availability and storage rules; gallery controls were inspected, while individual artifact workflows remain untested.

• 2026-09-13 — The gallery gained a four-tab strip — All · Pinned · Yours · Shared with you — so artifacts other people share now have a home of their own, plus a New artifact button that creates one straight from the gallery without a conversation. On the web, claude.ai/artifacts/my now redirects to claude.ai/artifacts, and an individual artifact opens under /code at claude.ai/code/artifact/{id}. An open artifact carries Comment on this artifact and a presence avatar. The share control now spells out the current visibility (Share, private). The help centre confirms artifacts now also run in Cowork (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise), and that the Remix button for viewers is gone — people copy the code into a chat of their own instead. The pre-loaded library list and the Artifact Builder walkthrough have been removed from this page: neither is stated anywhere in Anthropic’s documentation and neither could be verified.

• 2026-04-18 — Cross-referenced with official help-center articles; added sources.

Related

• Chat composer
• Claude Design
• Connectors