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New artifact tool action: "open"

Artifacts tool gains an "open" action to display an existing artifact without publishing it

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Artifacts tool gains an "open" action to display an existing artifact without publishing it

What

The artifacts tool now supports an action: "open", which shows the user an existing artifact by its url without creating or publishing anything new. This is gated behind a schema flag, and the tool's prompt now includes a paragraph explaining how to use it: pass action: "open" along with the artifact's url.

Why

This gives Claude a way to surface an existing artifact to the user on its own, separate from the act of publishing or editing one.

Read from
Names in the bundleaction: "open"
Since it was published

The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Added since A small documentation edit on Fullscreen rendering touched a line naming open after this was published. To adjust scroll speed interactively, run `/scroll-speed`. The dialog shows a ruler you can scroll while it is open so you can feel the change immediately. Press `←` and `→` to adjust the speed, `r` to reset to the auto-detected default, a… fullscreen see the edit
Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up open, on Batches. - `type: "tab_opened"` api/messages/batches see the edit
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up open, on Batches.

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