What are Claude Artifacts? And how to use them

Much like my real-life chats with humans, my conversations with Claude are long-running and filled with tangents. This is all fine and good until I need to revisit an earlier portion of our chat—like the code snippet or diagram I asked it to generate. It's not impossible to work with these outputs within the chat, but when they're sandwiched between other irrelevant text boxes, things get messy. That's where Claude Artifacts save me from chaos. They allow you to work on substantial, stand