{"version":"2.1.292","anchor":"artifact-versions-list-and-read-named-versions","canonical_anchor":"artifact-versions-list-and-read-named-versions","heading":"Claude can list and read earlier versions of your artifacts","tier":"notice","area":"Artifacts","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292\/e\/artifact-versions-list-and-read-named-versions","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292","markdown":"### Claude can list and read earlier versions of your artifacts\n\nThe Artifact tool gains a way to list an artifact's versions and to read a named earlier version, limited to artifacts you own\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what switches artifact versions on, so they may not be available to you.\n\n**What**\n\nThe Artifact tool, which Claude uses to work with artifacts (pages you have published), gains version history:\n\n- Listing versions: a new action shows the versions of an artifact, labelled \"list versions of\" in the interface. Only the artifact's owner can list them.\n\n- Reading a version: the `read` action accepts a `version` and shows \" version N\" or \" (an earlier version)\".\n\n- Ownership check: reading a named version is refused unless the artifact is known to be your own.\n\n- Clearer failures: opening an artifact now reports a specific reason when it fails.\n\nThe new version option only appears when a setting that turns versions on is active.\n\nSeparately, a `PublishPlugin` tool is described as publishing a plugin folder on your machine to your organization's library on claude.ai, after you confirm.\n\n**Why**\n\nClaude can look back at earlier versions of an artifact instead of only the current one, for example to compare changes or recover earlier content.\n\n- Area: Artifacts\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 5\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}