Artifacts
Working with code, documents, and other content Nova creates for you
Artifacts
When Nova creates something substantial for you — a piece of code, a document, a web page, or an image — it can open in its own side panel instead of being buried in the middle of the chat. We call this an artifact.
Artifacts are meant for things you'll want to copy, save, or keep working with — not for short answers or quick examples, which Nova will just write directly in the chat.
Opening an artifact
When Nova finishes writing an artifact, a small chip appears under its message showing the title and type (for example, "Fibonacci (recursive) · Code · Python"). Click the chip to open the artifact in the side panel.
If you close the panel, a pill in the top-right of the conversation lets you reopen it — it shows how many artifacts exist in the current chat.
Types of artifacts
| Type | What you'll see |
|---|---|
| Code | Syntax-highlighted source code with line numbers. |
| Document | Formatted text, rendered like a normal document. |
| Markdown | Formatted text using Markdown, rendered the same way. |
| HTML | A live preview of the page, with a toggle to view the raw source. |
| SVG | A rendered preview of the image. |
| Text | Plain text, shown as-is. |
Working with an artifact
While an artifact panel is open you can:
- Copy the full content to your clipboard using the copy button.
- Open in a new tab — available for HTML artifacts, so you can view the page full-size in your browser.
- Navigate between artifacts — if a conversation has more than one, use the arrows in the panel header to move between them.
- Close the panel using the × button. Your artifacts aren't lost — just reopen them from the chip or the pill mentioned above.
Updating an artifact
If you ask Nova to change something it already wrote (for example, "make that function handle negative numbers too"), it will update the same artifact rather than creating a brand new one, so you always have the latest version in one place.
Artifacts are saved with your conversation
Artifacts stick around for as long as the conversation does. If you delete the conversation, its artifacts are removed along with it — see Managing Conversations.