Live Artifacts is the feature that makes Cowork feel like a persistent workspace rather than a stateless chat session.

What it is: a capability inside Claude's Cowork app where Claude builds dashboards and trackers connected to your apps and files and every time you reopen one, it pulls fresh data automatically.

The problem is one most AI power users hit quickly: every session starts from zero. You get a useful output, close the window, come back tomorrow and have to reconstruct everything. There's no memory between the artifact and the world it was summarising.

Live Artifacts addresses this by letting Claude generate outputs that stay connected to their sources. Open one and it refreshes. The artifact isn't a screenshot of a moment, it's a live view.

What makes this different from a regular Cowork artifact is persistence and state. There's a dedicated Live Artifacts tab, version history, and cross-session continuity. You can build something today and return to it next month from a different device or conversation.

Key features:

Dashboards and trackers built by Claude, connected to your apps and files
Auto-refresh on open, no manual prompting required
Saved to a dedicated Live Artifacts tab with version history
Available on all paid plans

Benefits:

Always-current views without rebuilding prompts each session
Version history means you can see how tracked data changed over time
Cross-session access removes the per-conversation context ceiling

Who it's for: ops leads, founders, and individual contributors who already use Cowork and need persistent, data-connected views rather than one-off outputs.