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This article explains how to use live artifacts in **Claude Cowork**—persistent, interactive HTML dashboards that Claude builds for you. Live artifacts refresh with current data from your connected apps and live in their own tab across tasks.

Availability

Live artifacts are available on paid Claude plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) on:

Cowork requires the latest version of Claude Desktop. Download or update at claude.com/download.

What are live artifacts?

A live artifact is a persistent, interactive HTML page that Claude creates for you in Cowork —a tracker, a dashboard, a comparison tool, a reference—shaped around your specific work. Every live artifact you create is saved to the “Live artifacts” tab in Cowork, and you can reopen, refresh, and iterate on it from any future session.

Create a live artifact

There are two ways to create a live artifact in Cowork.

From a Cowork task

Ask Claude to build what you need. A few examples:

When you describe the artifact, mention the connected apps or local files Claude should use. The result saves automatically to the “Live artifacts” tab.

From the Live artifacts tab

Open and refresh an artifact

To reopen an artifact, select “Live artifacts” from the Cowork sidebar and click the one you want.

When you open a live artifact, it pulls fresh data from your connected apps. Most of the time you won’t need to refresh manually, as a short cache holds recent data so the artifact loads quickly, and it re-queries your connected apps on its own. If you want to force new data, use the refresh button in the artifact’s header.

Version history

Each time you iterate on a live artifact with Claude, the previous version is saved. Open the artifact’s version history to:

Example use cases

Current limitations

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