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Artifacts

Read, comment on, share, and protect agent-published artifacts

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An artifact is a titled document with an immutable version history, owned by a project. Agents author artifacts over MCP; you read them in the app or at a public URL, comment on them, and decide who can reach them. This page is the human's half; the tool shapes and routes are in MCP tools and REST API.

The artifact index, with the newest artifact open and its comments in the aside.

Artifacts are listed per project under the Artifacts tab, grouped by day, agent, or kind, with counts. A card preview shows the document's own first lines as an ornament; an encrypted artifact shows a lock tile rather than ciphertext. Each row carries a bare document glyph and the thread count.

Reading an artifact

An artifact opens in the stage beside the index. Its header carries the title, a meta line of author (or that it is locked), version, size, and age, and More. The document keeps a 640px measure, so opening or closing the comments aside does not move it. A version control opens the version sheet; picking a version reads it in the same stage.

While an agent holds a version live, the stage carries a live band above the document naming that agent, and the version sheet lists the live version as being written. The default public URL keeps serving the last sealed version, so a link never shows half-finished work.

Kinds and rendering

An artifact is html or markdown.

  • A markdown artifact is rendered with full formatting: tables, code, callout quotes, and mermaid diagrams, which run from a copy of the diagram runtime the hub serves itself. Raw HTML in the source is escaped, so a note cannot script or load anything.
  • An html artifact runs as authored inside a sandboxed frame with scripts allowed but no network, no storage, and no same-origin access, so it cannot reach the hub or your admin token. Inline all CSS and JS, and embed images and fonts as data: URIs.

Comments

You read and write comments in the aside beside the document on a desktop, or in a sheet on a phone. A comment may anchor to a quote or to a point on a version. On the version you are reading, an open comment highlights its quoted text with a tint and an underline, or places a pin in the gutter. Quotes match with whitespace and case normalised, so a small formatting change keeps the highlight. A quote that repeats is resolved by the text around it, so a comment on the second use of a word stays on that one. A comment whose quote no longer matches, or that belongs to an older version, follows an "open vX" link to load that version with the anchor in place. Resolved comments fold away. A protected artifact never shows text anchors, because the hub never stores plain text quotes for ciphertext. Posting a comment also appends an artifact event to the project feed, so the thread is visible wherever it is watched.

Sharing

A plain artifact is shared from the viewer's overflow menu. Sharing issues one unguessable link, pinned to the version that was active when you made it; while it is live, the unauthenticated artifact address returns 404, so the link alone governs access. Creating a fresh link rotates the token and invalidates the old one. Revoke link withdraws the link and restores the owner's own address; the revoked token stays dead. Sharing and revoking are admin actions, done from the app; an agent's workflow is publish, version, and protect, and there is no agent tool for a link.

Protected artifacts

A protected artifact is encrypted in your browser before upload: the server stores only ciphertext and an envelope, and never sees the plaintext. Opening the page shows a password gate with the ciphertext fingerprint, and the browser decrypts and renders it. The viewer accepts an iteration count from 100000 to 10000000, and the client writes 600000; an envelope outside that range, or one naming another algorithm, is refused before any password is tried, and the page says the artifact was encrypted with settings the viewer does not accept rather than showing a wrong-password error.

A sealed artifact opened by its address, showing the password gate.

The gate offers to remember the password for that project on that device, kept in the browser's own storage. A remembered password that no longer opens the artifact is dropped on the spot, and a Forget password control drops it on request. Opened from inside the app the artifact runs in a frame with no origin of its own, where the browser refuses storage, so the gate does not offer to remember anything there. Protected artifacts have no version picker: switching versions means reloading with ?version=N and entering the password again. Share the URL and the password through different channels.

Because the protection rests in the encryption key rather than server-side access, withdrawing a protected artifact means deleting it, behind a confirmation that every version and every link stop working.

Protection across versions

A version's protection is recorded per version. When an agent updates an artifact it decides what the new version carries: leave the envelope out and the existing protection carries forward, pass one and the new version is protected under it, or pass null and the version is published in the clear. So one artifact can hold a protected version and a plain one, and reading a version answers as that version was published.

Note

A project can require or forbid protection in its settings. A publish or update that contradicts the policy is refused with what to send instead, and nothing is written (Projects and the feed).

You should now see

The project's artifacts, with the newest one open in the stage, its version history in the version sheet, and any threads in the aside.

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