Claude Artifacts
Ask Claude for a standalone deliverable and it opens in a side panel, ask for changes and Claude updates it in place.
An artifact is a deliverable, not just a reply
When you ask Claude for something that stands on its own, a document, a piece of code, a web page, Claude can produce it as an artifact. An artifact appears in a side panel alongside the chat, not inside the message flow. This matters because you can edit it, ask Claude to revise it, and copy it without digging back through the conversation.
Artifacts are iterative. Once Claude creates one, you can ask follow-up requests, "make the intro shorter," "add a section on pricing," "change the button color to blue", and Claude updates the same artifact rather than producing a new one. The side panel tracks the current version.
You can ask Claude to create an artifact explicitly by saying something like "write this as a document" or "put the code in an artifact." You can also just make a request naturally, Claude will use an artifact when the output is the kind of thing that benefits from being separate from the chat.
Claude produces four main kinds of artifacts. Click each card to see when it appears and an example ask.
Artifacts live beside the chat
Ask for something that stands on its own and Claude opens it in a side panel instead of dropping it into the message scroll. Ask for a change and the same artifact updates in place, it doesn't get reposted.
Pick an artifact kind above, e.g. “Write a one-page project overview as a document.”
Your artifact will appear here
Question 1 of 4
What is the main advantage of an artifact over a regular chat reply?