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Plugins and skills can now render a Markdown element with clickable links in the terminal UI
What
- A new
Markdownelement type is available in the UI toolkit plugins and skills use to build custom terminal interfaces, alongside existing elements likeBox,Text, andCode. It supports props such astext,dimColor, andpressableLinks, and its content is sanitized to reject control characters. - Markdown text can now contain clickable (pressable) links: a new renderer recognizes
https://,http://, andfile://links, distinguishes single- from double-clicks, and calls a press handler with the link's destination when clicked. - The system that finds which UI elements are clickable now also collects a
pressableLinkslist of link destinations for a pressable element. - The
Markdowncomponent is now an allowed element on the default, mobile, and VS Code render surfaces, with a dedicated error if a Markdown element with links is missing its click handler.
Why This lets plugins and skills present richer, formatted text with clickable links in their custom terminal UI, instead of being limited to plain text or buttons.
Names in the bundleMarkdowndimColorpressableLinksonLinkPress
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.
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A small documentation edit on Artifacts touched a line naming Markdown after this was published.
When Claude saves the same filename again in the same session, the artifact gains a new version. You can also edit text-based artifacts (Markdown, code, plain text) directly: click **Edit content**, make changes, and **Save** to create a n…claude-science/artifacts see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up Markdown, on Claude Science changelog.
* Tables in Markdown files now show as a compact grid; a long table keeps its header row in view, and row labels stay in view when you scroll sidewaysclaude-science/changelog see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up Markdown, on Claude Science changelog.