Artifacts
An artifact is anything the assistant builds that is more than a chat reply: a document, a kanban board, a spreadsheet, a slide deck, a diagram, a timer. Artifacts open in a panel beside the chat, most of them can be edited in place, and every one can be downloaded, shared with specific people, or published with a link.
| Artifact | What it is | |
|---|---|---|
| 🧊 | 3D model (OpenSCAD) | A parametric 3D part, modelled in code and rendered in an interactive viewer. |
| 🪨 | 3D Model Viewer | View a 3D file you’ve uploaded — STL, OBJ, GLTF or GLB — right in the panel. |
| ♟ | Chess | A playable board you can step through move by move. |
| ⚡ | Circuit | A circuit that simulates in your browser, with a schematic and scope or voltage readout. |
| 📊 | Dashboard | A board of KPIs, charts and tables you can refresh to pull fresh numbers. |
| ⚖ | Decision matrix | A weighted scoring grid that ranks your options as you adjust the numbers. |
| 🧩 | Diagram | Org charts, process flows, network maps, charts and maps you can revisit and edit. |
| 🃏 | Flashcards | A study deck with built-in spaced repetition, exportable to Anki or Quizlet. |
| 🌐 | HTML | An interactive web page, tool or game that runs live in the panel. |
| 🖼️ | Image | An image the assistant generated or edited for you. |
| 🗂 | Kanban board | A drag-and-drop board of cards in columns for tracking work. |
| 🧮 | LaTeX | A LaTeX document with properly typeset maths, editable in the panel. |
| 📚 | Literature review | A table of papers with your own extraction columns and a verification badge on every row. |
| 📝 | Markdown | A formatted document you can edit, comment on and export to Word, LaTeX or PDF. |
| 📽️ | Slides | A slide deck you can flick through in the panel and export to PowerPoint. |
| 📋 | PRISMA checklist | The full PRISMA 2020 reporting checklist, ready to fill in item by item. |
| 🧬 | PRISMA flow diagram | The standard PRISMA 2020 record-flow figure for a systematic review, drawn from your counts. |
| 🐍 | Python | A Python script that runs in your browser, with plots and printed output. |
| 🎼 | Sheet music | Engraved staff notation from ABC source you can edit. |
| 📊 | Spreadsheet (CSV) | An editable table of data you can search, change and download as CSV. |
| ⏱ | Timer | A Pomodoro, countdown, stopwatch or multi-phase timer that keeps running between visits. |
| ✓ | To-do list | A checkable list you can reorder, tick off and add to. |
| 📚 | Wiki | A small multi-page wiki or blog with a page list and search. |
Asking for one
Section titled “Asking for one”Just describe what you want. The assistant picks the right kind from your request — “write me a project brief” becomes a document, “track these candidates” becomes a kanban board, “make slides for this” becomes a deck. If you want a specific kind, name it: “make it a kanban board”, “give me a PowerPoint”, “put this in a spreadsheet”.
Some kinds appear progressively as the assistant writes (documents, code, spreadsheets, decks) — you’ll see “Generating document…” in the panel while it streams. Others arrive complete in one go (boards, dashboards, timers, diagrams).
Every artifact kind is available on every plan, and there’s nothing to switch on. If the assistant reaches for a kind you didn’t want, say so — “just answer in the chat” or “make that a document instead” — and it will follow your lead for the rest of the conversation.
The side panel
Section titled “The side panel”The panel opens on its own the first time an artifact starts streaming. When you come back to a chat later, its newest artifact opens once automatically (on desktop). If you close the panel, it stays closed until you open another chat.
To open it again, click the artifact card in the message, or the cube button in the chat header (it shows how many artifacts the chat has).
If a chat has several artifacts, use the dropdown in the panel’s title bar or the previous/next arrows to move between them — the counter shows where you are (“2 of 5”). The page address updates as you switch, so you can send someone a link that opens a particular artifact.
The toolbar has Download, Share, Publish, Open in full page and Close. Web apps and Python scripts also get a Fullscreen button. Markdown documents have a Show comments toggle.
Open in full page takes you to the artifact’s own page, which is the same panel without the chat next to it — handy for long documents, boards you want to keep open, or reading on a smaller screen. Press Fullscreen there to hide everything else; Esc brings the chrome back.
Editing
Section titled “Editing”Most kinds can be edited directly in the panel, and each has its own Save button with a “Saving… / Saved” indicator. Markdown documents are different: they save automatically, and the save state is in the footer (see Markdown). Documents get a rich-text editor plus source, split and preview tabs; boards, lists and tables get drag-and-drop or cell editing; diagrams, circuits, sheet music and 3D models let you edit their source.
A few kinds are view-only: web apps and Python scripts (you can read the source but not change it), images, and dashboards (which have a Refresh button instead). Timers are controlled, not edited.
If someone shared an artifact with you as a viewer, you can read it but not save changes — the panel shows a “Read-only” chip.
The assistant sees your edits
Section titled “The assistant sees your edits”Whatever is in the artifact now is what the assistant works from on your next message — including changes you made by hand. So you can edit a document yourself, then say “tighten the second section” and the assistant edits your version, in place, rather than creating a new copy. Keep the artifact you’re talking about open in the panel so there’s no ambiguity about which one you mean.
Comments
Section titled “Comments”Markdown documents support comments. Select some text in the preview and click Comment. Comments sit in a rail beside the document, with replies, and can be resolved and reopened. Other people you’ve shared the document with see and can reply to them. Other artifact kinds don’t have comments yet.
Version history
Section titled “Version history”Text documents (Markdown, LaTeX and Python) keep their last 10 versions. A series of saves by one person is one version, so automatic saves do not fill the history. To go back, ask the assistant to restore the previous version. After a Humanize run, you can also use Undo Humanize in the Review menu.
Other kinds keep no history: a save replaces the previous state. If you want to keep an earlier draft, download it first.
Downloading
Section titled “Downloading”The Download menu is on the panel toolbar and on the artifact card in the chat. What it offers depends on the kind:
| Kind | Downloads |
|---|---|
| Markdown document | Markdown, Word (.docx), LaTeX (.tex), PDF (opens a print view) |
| Web app | HTML file |
| LaTeX document | Word (.docx), .tex |
| Spreadsheet | CSV |
| Slides | PowerPoint (.pptx), Markdown |
| Literature review | Word, BibTeX, RIS, CSV, Markdown |
| Flashcards | Anki, CSV (Quizlet and others), JSON |
| Sheet music | ABC source |
| Chess | PGN, copy FEN |
| 3D model (OpenSCAD) | .scad source, STL (.stl) |
| Circuit | SPICE netlist |
| PRISMA flow diagram | SVG, PNG, print, JSON |
| PRISMA checklist | JSON |
| Image | the image file |
Boards, to-do lists, decision matrices, dashboards, wikis, timers and diagrams don’t have a download at the moment — share a link instead.
From the chat: ask the assistant — “give me this deck as a PowerPoint” or “send me this as a Word file” — and it replies with a download link. The link gives you the same file as the menu.
PDF: the PDF option for documents opens a nicely formatted print view in your browser; choose “Save as PDF” from your browser’s print dialog.
Sharing
Section titled “Sharing”There are two different ways to share, behind two toolbar buttons.
Share (the people icon) is for specific people. Invite them by email as a Viewer or Editor, and optionally turn on general link access so anyone with the link can view or edit. You can also grant access to assistants you’ve built. The chat the artifact came from stays private.
Publish (the globe icon) makes a public page. Tick Publish this artifact and you get a link anyone can open without signing in, plus buttons to copy it or post it to X, LinkedIn, Facebook or email. Optionally, List in public artifact directory puts it in the public gallery under a category you choose. Changes take effect immediately; untick to revoke the link. Visitors to a published artifact see the rendered result, the title, and your display name. They can download it and start their own chat from it with Use in new chat.
One thing to know before publishing: for most kinds, the public page includes the artifact’s underlying data, not just a picture of it — a published spreadsheet, board, review table or flashcard deck exposes its rows and cards. Web apps and Python scripts are the exception: visitors see the running app or output, never the source.
The Artifacts gallery
Section titled “The Artifacts gallery”Artifacts in the sidebar lists every artifact from all your chats, newest first, with a live thumbnail, its kind and when it was last touched. Search by title. Artifacts other people have shared with you appear in a Shared with me section below yours, with your role on each. Each card has Open (the artifact’s page) and Chat (jump to the conversation it came from).
Projects have their own Artifacts tab showing only the artifacts from chats in that project.
Deleting
Section titled “Deleting”Artifacts don’t have their own delete button. An artifact lives with its chat: delete the chat and its artifacts go with it. If you only want to stop a public link working, untick Publish this artifact instead.