Accessing artifacts in the sidebar and Claude-powered artifacts are supported on free, Pro, Max, and Claude for Work (Team and Enterprise) plans.
Artifacts allow you to turn ideas into shareable apps, tools, or content—build tools, visualizations, and experiences by simply describing what you need. Claude can share substantial, standalone content with you in a dedicated window separate from the main conversation. This makes it easy for you to work with significant pieces of content that you may want to modify, build upon, or reference later.
What are artifacts?
Claude creates an artifact when the content it is sharing has the following characteristics:
It is significant and self-contained, typically over 15 lines of content.
It is something you are likely to want to edit, iterate on, or reuse outside the conversation.
It represents a complex piece of content that stands on its own without requiring extra conversation context.
It is content you are likely to want to refer back to or use later on.
Some common examples of artifact content include:
Documents (Markdown or Plain Text)
Code snippets
Websites (single page HTML)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images
Diagrams and flowcharts
Interactive React components
How do I create and manage artifacts?
For free, Pro, and Max plan users
You can access all your artifacts through the dedicated artifacts space in your Claude sidebar. This space allows you to:
View all your creations in one organized location.
Browse Anthropic-created artifacts for inspiration.
Create new artifacts from scratch or by customizing existing ones.
Manage and organize your artifact collection.
For Claude for Work users
In addition to the above, Team and Enterprise users can share artifacts securely with other members of the same organization and browse work-focused artifacts for inspiration.
Working with artifacts
When Claude creates an artifact, you'll see the artifact content displayed in the dedicated window to the right side of the main chat. Here's what you can do:
Edit and iterate
Ask Claude to modify or update the artifact content
These changes appear directly in the artifact window
Switch between different versions using the version selector
Your edits won't change Claude's memory of the original content
Edit prior chat messages to create a different version of a chat history, with its own set of Artifacts. This lets you easily create different versions of an Artifact without fear of losing your previous work.
View and export
View the underlying code of any artifact.
Copy content to your clipboard.
Download files to use outside the conversation.
These options are in the lower right corner of the artifact window.
Multiple artifacts
Open and work with several artifacts in one conversation.
Use the chat controls (slider icon in upper right) to switch between them.
Select which artifact you want Claude to reference for updates.
Creating Claude-powered artifacts
You can also build artifacts that embed AI capabilities, turning them into AI-powered apps. Users of your artifacts can access Claude's intelligence through a text-based API—answering questions, generating creative content, providing personalized coaching, playing games, solving problems, and adapting responses based on input. When you share these AI-powered artifacts, others can use them immediately—no API keys, no costs to you. Whether your artifact helps 10 people or 10,000, it's completely free to share.
For Claude for Work (Team and Enterprise plan) users: When you share AI-powered artifacts within your organization, team members can use them without incurring additional costs to the creator. Usage counts against each user's existing team limits.
To create artifacts with AI capabilities
You describe what you want.
Claude writes the code.
The app runs on Anthropic's infrastructure.
Users authenticate with their Claude account and interact with their own instance of the artifact.
Their usage counts against their Claude subscription (you do not pay for their usage).
Enhanced artifact capabilities
Artifacts now support advanced features that enable more powerful and persistent applications.
MCP integration and persistent storage for artifacts are available on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans on Claude web and desktop.
MCP integration
Artifacts can connect to external services through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling interactive applications that read from and write to tools like Asana, Google Calendar, and Slack. In addition to Anthropic's official MCP integrations, they can connect to any custom MCP servers you've configured. Users control which tools each artifact can access through granular permission settings.
When an artifact needs to access an MCP tool, you'll be prompted to approve access on first interaction. Your preferences persist for subsequent uses of that artifact.
Important: Each user must authenticate MCP servers independently, even when using shared or published artifacts. Organization admins can enable or disable artifacts MCP at the organization level, but cannot manage which specific MCP servers artifacts can use.
Persistent storage
Artifacts can now store data across sessions, enabling stateful applications like journals, trackers, and collaborative tools. Storage can be configured as either personal or shared, depending on the artifact's purpose.
Personal storage: Each user maintains their own private data. For example, in a journal artifact, your entries remain visible only to you—other users have their own separate journal entries.
Shared storage: All users see and interact with the same data. For example, in a game leaderboard artifact, everyone sees the same scores and rankings.
When you interact with an artifact that uses shared storage for the first time, you'll see a confirmation dialog explaining that your data will be visible to other users of that artifact.
Storage specifications:
20MB storage limit per artifact
Text-only input—no images, files, or binary data can be stored
Personal and shared storage are isolated: your personal data is never shared, and shared data is visible to all artifact users
Unpublishing an artifact permanently deletes all associated storage data (both personal and shared)
Privacy considerations: Artifact creators determine which data uses personal versus shared storage when building the artifact. Before entering sensitive information, consider whether the artifact uses shared storage and whether other users should have access to your data.
Learn more about artifacts
Read more about how to use Claude to power artifacts with these two guides: