Artifacts and Projects - Claude Cheat Sheet

Where your work lives across chats, artifacts and projects: making an artifact you keep and edit, changing it without losing the good parts, publishing it, and setting up a project with standing instructions and a curated knowledge shelf.

On the sheet:

- Where your work lives: chat, artifact and project, and how they fit

- What becomes an artifact: the kinds of work that open in their own window

- Ask for a document, not a reply: the four-part brief plus the shape it takes

- Change it without losing the good parts: steer in batches, protect, go back a version

- Three ways out: copy, download, publish, and what publishing means

- Build a small tool you keep: one prompt, one working thing, kept for good

- What a project is: standing instructions, a knowledge shelf, its own chats

- The knowledge shelf: curate the files, do not dump them

- Project, or plain chat?: when the same background is worth saving

- How many, and sharing: how to split projects, and what sharing exposes

- Projects and memory: context for one body of work versus everywhere

Two A4 pages, printed front and back, sized to print once and keep beside you while you work. Written in short sentences and plain English, for readers whose first language is not English and clearer for everyone else because of it.

It pairs with the Artifacts: Things You Keep and Projects: A Home Base books, so you can learn each idea in full and then revise it here in two pages.

Every product fact on this sheet - every plan, price, limit, setting and menu - was checked against Anthropic's own published documentation before the file was made. This is an independent study guide, not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by Anthropic. Instant PDF download. By M.R. Sterling.