Artifacts are standalone pieces of content that the copilot creates for you inside a conversation, documents, dashboards, diagrams, app interfaces, code, and more. Instead of being buried in the back-and-forth of a chat, an artifact opens in its own panel beside the conversation, where you can view it, edit it, iterate on it, and share it. This guide covers how artifacts get created and how to edit, keep, and reuse them.
How artifacts get created
You don’t need a special command to create an artifact. When you ask the copilot for something substantial enough to stand on its own, it generates an artifact automatically and opens it in the side panel next to your chat.
Typical prompts that produce an artifact include the following.
- “Write a one-page product brief for our onboarding redesign.”
- “Build a dashboard showing weekly active users by team.”
- “Create a flowchart of our approval workflow.”
- “Draft a landing page for the new Skills marketplace.”
The conversation stays on the left, and the artifact renders on the right. As you keep chatting, the copilot updates the same artifact rather than starting over.
Edit and iterate
Once an artifact exists, you refine it by asking in chat. Describe the change in plain language, for example, “make the headline shorter”, “add a column for last login”, or “switch the chart to a bar graph”, and the copilot revises the artifact in place. Keep iterating in the same conversation until it’s right.
Keep and reuse
Artifacts live in the conversation they were created in, so you can return to that chat anytime to view or continue iterating. To use an artifact elsewhere, you have two options.
- Download it to your device in a compatible format.
- Share a link that others can open. See Share artifacts.
If you’ll need an artifact later, download it or grab a share link before moving on. Artifacts stay tied to their original conversation, so they’re easy to lose track of otherwise.
