What are Claude Artifacts?
Claude Artifacts are pieces of standalone content, such as documents, slide decks, designs, dashboards and small interactive apps, that Claude creates in a panel beside your conversation so you can edit, reuse and share them. Anthropic's help center puts it this way: "An artifact is anything Claude makes for you that you'd put in front of someone: a design, a deck, a document, a dashboard, or a small interactive tool."
Artifacts are available on every Claude plan (Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise) and in Claude Code on every plan that includes Claude Code. Some features on top, such as connecting apps and storing data, need a paid plan. The details are in the plan table below.
The feature changed a lot in 2026. Artifacts made in a chat before September 16, 2026 are now called legacy artifacts. They keep working and you can still publish and share them, but new artifacts follow the newer model with templates, a sharing menu and an Artifacts tab in the sidebar.
When does Claude create an artifact?
Claude decides on its own when output should become an artifact. Per the help center, it does so when the content:
- Is significant and self-contained, typically over 15 lines.
- Is something you will probably edit, iterate on or reuse outside the conversation.
- Stands on its own without extra context from the chat.
- Is something you will likely refer back to later.
That covers documents, code snippets, single-page websites, images, diagrams and flowcharts, dashboards and small tools. You don't have to wait for Claude to choose: ask for one directly, such as "make this a one-page HTML calculator as an artifact."
If Claude never makes artifacts for you, check the setting. Artifacts require Cloud code execution and file creation, called Create and edit files in the updated Settings layout. Turn it on under Settings > Capabilities on Free, Pro and Max, or under Organization settings > Capabilities on Team and Enterprise.
How do you create an artifact from a template?
Templates are starting points for work you plan to share. Ask for one in any chat, select "Output" in the message box and pick a template, or start one from the Artifacts tab. The current templates are:
| Template | What it makes | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Docs | Living documents you write with Claude and your team in real time | All plans |
| Slides | Presentations you can edit, present inside Claude and export | All plans |
| Design | Visuals, mockups, prototypes, one-pagers and landing pages | All plans |
| Dashboards (beta) | Dashboards from data platforms or connected apps; each chart shows its query and last refresh | Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise |
| Motion (beta) | Animated explainers, charts and walkthroughs, exported as MP4 | Team, Enterprise |
On Enterprise, the Docs, Slides and Design templates turn on by default on October 15, 2026, and owners can turn them on earlier. Dashboards is off on Enterprise until an owner enables it, and Motion is on by default for Team but off for Enterprise until an owner turns it on.
Designs and decks can use a design system, so new work picks up your colors, fonts and components.
How do you edit and export an artifact?
Everything you make is saved to the Artifacts tab in the Claude sidebar, so you can find it from any conversation. An artifact opens in its own window beside the chat, and template artifacts open on a canvas or page you can work in directly.
You have four ways to change one:
- Ask Claude for the change in the chat.
- Edit directly in a template artifact: type in a doc, edit a slide, or move elements on a design canvas.
- In a doc or Markdown file, highlight text, click "Edit with Claude" and type the request, so Claude edits exactly where you marked.
- Edit an earlier message to branch the chat. The branch gets its own artifacts, so you can explore another direction without losing the first.
Export depends on the type. Docs export to Word, PDF, Markdown and Google Docs. Decks go to PowerPoint and PDF, or straight to Google Slides. Designs export as a .zip, PDF, PowerPoint or standalone HTML. Motion exports as MP4. Legacy artifacts have controls at the top of the panel to view the code, copy it or download it.
When an artifact shows an error, click "Try fixing with Claude" near the message. That copies the error into a new message so Claude can diagnose it, though Anthropic notes success isn't guaranteed.
How do you share or publish an artifact?
Artifacts start private to you. Open one and click "Share," then choose who has access. The options depend on your plan, per the sharing article:
| Sharing option | Free | Pro and Max | Team | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anyone with the link | No | Yes | Yes, if an Owner allows external sharing | Yes, if an Owner allows external sharing |
| Everyone or specific people in your organization | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Groups | No | No | No | Yes |
| Invite people by email (beta) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Publish a legacy artifact | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Share a legacy artifact with "Share & copy link" | No | No | Yes | Yes |
You pick an access level for each person: Can view (open it and read comments), Commenter (also comment and download files the artifact offers) or Can edit (also make changes). You can invite up to 50 people from outside your organization per artifact, and pending invitations expire after 30 days.
A few rules matter before you send a link:
- Everyone needs a Claude account to open a shared artifact. The only exception in the help center is a legacy artifact published from a chat. Artifacts published from Claude Code are covered separately below.
- Artifacts that connect to your apps or use Claude can't be shared with "Anyone with the link."
- Viewers use their own access. An artifact that reads connected apps uses the viewer's connections, not yours.
- You can't change sharing settings in the iOS or Android app. Use the web or Claude Desktop.
Legacy artifacts still show "Publish" on Free, Pro and Max. Publishing gives a public link that anyone can view and use without a Claude account. You can also click "Get embed code" to embed it on another site, limited to the domains you list. Be careful with "Unpublish": you can't publish the same artifact again afterward, and it permanently deletes any data the artifact stored.
Can you remix someone else's artifact?
Yes, for legacy artifacts published from a chat, on Free, Pro and Max. Anthropic calls this building on a published artifact:
- Open the published artifact and click "Copy" to copy its code.
- Start a new chat, paste the code and describe your changes, for example "change the questions to be about movies and add a timer."
- Refine it like any artifact you made yourself.
Your copy is separate, so nothing you change affects the original. The help center warns to do this only with artifacts from people you trust, and to treat someone else's code like a file from an unknown sender.
What are AI-powered artifacts?
An artifact can call Claude directly, which turns it into a small app: a quiz that adapts to answers, a writing coach, a game, a tool that generates content from what people type. You describe the app, Claude writes the code, and it runs on Anthropic's infrastructure.
The cost model is the interesting part. People using your artifact sign in with their own Claude account, so there are no API keys and no cost to you. The help center says "usage counts against each person's own plan limits rather than yours," whether ten people use it or ten thousand.
New artifacts ask for permission the first time they want to use Claude. For legacy artifacts, the setting is called AI-powered artifacts, or Artifacts that use Claude in the updated layout, under Settings > Capabilities.
Can artifacts connect to apps and store data?
On Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, in Claude on the web and Claude Desktop, artifacts can do two more things.
Connect apps. An artifact can read from and write to apps you have connected to Claude, such as Asana, Google Calendar and Slack, plus any custom connectors. The first time, Claude shows which apps and tools it will use and asks you to approve them. Everyone connects their own apps, even on a shared artifact, and on Team and Enterprise an owner can turn this off.
Store data. Artifacts can keep data between sessions, which makes journals, trackers and shared tools possible. Personal storage keeps each user's data private. Shared storage shows everyone the same data, like a leaderboard. Each artifact gets up to 20 MB of text-only storage. The builder decides which data goes where, so check whether an artifact uses shared storage before you type anything sensitive into it.
How do artifacts work in Claude Code?
Claude Code can publish session output as an artifact: a live interactive page at a private URL on claude.ai that updates in place as the session continues. Good uses include a pull request walkthrough with annotated diffs, a dashboard from data the session pulled, or an investigation timeline that fills in while Claude works.
Ask in plain language, such as "make an artifact that walks through this PR with the diff annotated inline." Claude prints the URL after the first publish, and pressing Ctrl+] reopens the session's most recent artifact. The Claude Code docs list artifacts on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise for sessions signed in with /login. You can also use /design for Claude Design or ask for a doc. Publishing works from the Claude Code CLI and the Claude desktop app (version 1.13576.0 or later).
Sharing works a little differently here. A Claude Code artifact can go out as a public link that anyone can open with no claude.ai sign-in, and on Team and Enterprise public sharing stays off until an Owner enables it. Those viewers see the page without any live sections that call your connectors.
If you build artifacts in code yourself, the web-artifacts-builder skill packages a React and Tailwind workflow for complex HTML artifacts.
Keep the prompts behind your best artifacts
A good artifact usually starts from a good prompt, and you will want that prompt again for the next dashboard or quiz. Kipt keeps prompts as Markdown in a private GitHub repo you own, with blanks such as {{topic:movies}} you fill in when you copy and Cmd+K search to find them. For more starting points, see these Claude prompts, and use Claude Projects when one body of work needs shared files and instructions.