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Claude Code v2.1.246 ·

Artifact guidance routes decks and documents through the type list first

Asking for a deck, document or design now sends Claude to check artifact types first.

Under the hood Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.246
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ArtifactsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.246,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

When you ask for a slide deck, presentation, a document or report for others to read, or a visual design, Claude Code is now told to look up the available artifact types before loading a skill or writing a file, and to prefer a listed type even over a skill that would emit a .pptx or .docx.

Details
  • The file-format route is now described as correct only when you actually want the file format itself.
  • Questions about which types or templates exist trigger a lookup before answering.
  • Where creating from a type is not available in the session, the model offers to make it another way instead.
Evidence

prefer a listed type that fits, even over a skill that would produce it as a file format such as .pptx or .docx

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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