# Claude 2.0: conversations and artifacts (/claude-and-chatgpt-2/tour/claude-conversations) --- type: Document title: "Claude 2.0: conversations and artifacts" description: "What one Claude conversation can now do, the Auto and Manual settings, the Code tab, the rebuilt projects, and the new kinds of artifacts." status: stable order: 0.21 ksor: owner: team:panaversity audience: [ public ] approval: by: process:panaversity at: 2026-11-09T20:42:53Z chapter: "F00T" part: Front expert_status: required concepts: [ "Claude conversations" ] last_verified: 2026-11-05 sources: - id: unified title: "Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-05)" resource: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16761823-claude-cowork-and-chat-are-one-claude - id: plans-claude title: "Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-05)" resource: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16761823-claude-cowork-and-chat-are-one-claude - id: defaults title: "Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-05)" resource: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16761823-claude-cowork-and-chat-are-one-claude - id: artifacts title: "Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-05)" resource: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16761823-claude-cowork-and-chat-are-one-claude - id: anthropic-unified-enterprise title: "Set up and manage the new unified Claude experience for your Enterprise organization (Anthropic, could not be opened on 2026-11-05)" resource: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17444462-set-up-and-manage-the-new-unified-claude-experience-for-your-enterprise-organization - id: claude-code-desktop title: "Use Claude Code Desktop (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-05)" resource: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop - id: anthropic-artifacts title: "What are artifacts and how do I use them? (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-07)" resource: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17153992-what-are-artifacts-and-how-do-i-use-them - id: projects-chat title: "Let Claude coordinate ongoing work with Projects (Anthropic, verified 2026-11-07)" resource: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-projects.md - id: projects-video title: "Video walkthrough of the new Claude app: projects, side chats, split view and artifacts (YouTube, verified 2026-11-07)" resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjuANoI8HDw generated: at: 2026-11-09T20:42:53Z by: process:panaversity trust_tier: unverified build_id: sha256:46fd53c5d7ab1c14f6347908d45c9fdaecda4d914439923ee878bdcecd57803e dirty: true ksor_version: 0.0.60 --- *As verified on November 5, 2026.* ### Two places to work The Claude desktop app has two main places to work. **Conversations.** One conversation now does everything. You no longer choose between chatting and handing off a task. You describe what you want, and Claude decides whether a quick answer is enough or whether the request needs real work. Anthropic used to call that working mode Cowork. It now happens inside any conversation, and this book calls it simply a task.[^unified],[^anthropic-unified-enterprise] A quick question gets a quick answer. A request for research, a report, a spreadsheet or a presentation becomes a task that searches, reads files, runs code, and returns editable files in the same conversation. Several tasks can run at once. In a conversation Claude can: - **Work with your files.** It can read, organize and create files in a folder on your computer that you grant it. - **Use a browser.** It can open pages, read them, click and fill in forms, in the app's built-in browser or in your own Chrome through Claude in Chrome. - **Use your computer.** With computer use, it can click, type and move between apps on your screen.[^plans-claude] - **Use your apps.** Connectors to apps such as Google Drive, Gmail, Microsoft 365 and Slack work during tasks. Skills teach Claude how you want a job done, and plugins bundle skills and connectors for a role. - **Draw in the conversation.** Charts, diagrams and small interactive visuals appear inside the reply. - **Keep going without you.** Tasks continue in the cloud if you close your laptop, and recurring tasks can run in the cloud on a schedule. Work that needs your local files, the built-in browser or computer use needs the desktop app open. - **Follow you to your phone.** Tasks started on the desktop appear in the mobile app, where you can answer questions, redirect the work or start something new. One setting governs how freely Claude acts in the whole conversation. **Auto** lets Claude work without asking at each step, with automated safety checks before each action. **Manual** asks before each action. You can change it at any time, and you can stop or redirect Claude while it works. By default Claude asks before permanently deleting files.[^defaults],[^claude-code-desktop] Because Claude now picks the route itself, this setting carries real weight. One request can start a task that uses a connector, then a browser, then your screen, without a separate step where you choose to hand the work over. If you want to see each action before it happens, choose Manual. Chapter 7, [The Authority Envelope](../../managing-ai-workers/the-authority-envelope/overview.md), teaches how to match each permission to what a worker may do. **Code.** The Code tab is Claude Code inside the desktop app. Despite its name, it is not only for programmers. You talk to it in plain language, and many people who use it never read the code it writes. Many of the newest features appear here, and most of the rest of this section describes it. Part III teaches it properly. **Projects.** Anthropic has rebuilt projects. A project used to be a folder of conversations with shared files and instructions, and the conversations could not see each other. A rebuilt project is one ongoing conversation that starts a separate thread for each job, gives every thread the same instructions and memory, and keeps track of them all. It began in the Code tab, and the next page describes it in full. It now works in conversations too, as a walkthrough reported and the author confirmed in November 2026. Until the new kind reaches your account, your existing projects keep working as before.[^projects-chat],[^projects-video] ### New artifacts: documents, slides, designs, dashboards and motion An artifact is a piece of finished work that gets its own window beside the conversation: something you keep, edit, present or share, not just read once. Artifacts work in conversations and in the Code tab. Five new kinds join the familiar pages, diagrams and small tools: | Artifact | What it is | You can export it as | | --- | --- | --- | | **Docs** | A living document you and your team write with Claude, like a shared document you can chat with | Word, PDF, Markdown or Google Docs | | **Slides** | A presentation built from notes, reports or the conversation. Edit the slides directly and present from Claude | PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides | | **Design** | Visuals, mockups, prototypes, one-pagers and landing pages, built to your organization's design system | PDF, PowerPoint, HTML, a .zip, or a transfer to other tools | | **Dashboards** | Charts and tables built from your data platforms and connected apps. Each chart shows its query and when it last refreshed | Shared as a link, not exported | | **Motion** | Animated explainers, charts and walkthroughs. Change a word, a number or a timing without redoing the rest | MP4 video | Docs, Slides and Design are on every plan, including the free plan. Dashboards and Motion are still in beta on paid plans.[^artifacts],[^anthropic-artifacts] Everything you make is kept in one place, the **Artifacts** tab in the sidebar, where you can find it from any conversation and start a new one from a template. To change part of a document, highlight the text, click **Edit with Claude** and say what you want. You can collect several of these requests and send them together, and Claude applies them in one pass.[^anthropic-artifacts] Three properties make artifacts more than files: - **They start private.** You decide whom to share them with. - **They can be live.** On paid plans an artifact can read from and write to connected apps, and keep its own data between visits. Each person who opens it connects their own apps. - **They can think.** An artifact can call Claude itself, so a shared tool can answer questions or coach its users. Each person's use counts against that person's own plan, not the creator's. The [From Skills to Income](../../from-skills-to-income/overview.md) page shows why that matters if you want to sell what you build. [^unified]: Anthropic began moving accounts to the single conversation in stages from September 2026, starting with Pro, Max and Ultra. Team was in beta, and Enterprise organizations receive it through an owner setting that turns on by default on November 16, 2026. An account that moves cannot switch back. The model picker and the Code tab are unchanged. Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude, Anthropic. [^anthropic-unified-enterprise]: Set up and manage the new unified Claude experience for your Enterprise organization, Anthropic †. [^plans-claude]: Computer use is in beta on Pro, Max and Ultra plans, as of November 5, 2026. Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude, Anthropic. [^defaults]: Auto is the default on Pro, Max, Ultra and Team plans, and Manual is the default on Enterprise, as of November 5, 2026. The Code tab has its own, wider set of permission modes, including Plan, Accept edits and Auto. Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude, Anthropic. [^claude-code-desktop]: Use Claude Code Desktop, Anthropic. [^artifacts]: As verified on November 7, 2026, Anthropic's artifacts page says the Docs, Slides and Design templates "are available on all plans and are on by default". On Enterprise they turned on by default on October 15, 2026. Dashboards are in beta on Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise, and Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise. Connecting apps to artifacts and storing artifact data need Pro or above. Artifacts require code execution and file creation to be turned on in Settings. What are artifacts and how do I use them?, Anthropic. [^anthropic-artifacts]: What are artifacts and how do I use them?, Anthropic. [^projects-chat]: As verified on November 7, 2026, Anthropic documents the rebuilt projects at claude.ai/code, in the Code tab of the desktop app and in the Claude mobile app, in public beta on Pro and Max. It says projects in conversations "keep working as they do today until the redesigned experience reaches them." That the new kind now works in conversations comes from a video walkthrough and the author's own check in November 2026, not from Anthropic's documentation. Let Claude coordinate ongoing work with Projects, Anthropic. [^projects-video]: Video walkthrough of the new Claude app: projects, side chats, split view and artifacts. Not confirmed on a first-party page when this page was verified on November 7, 2026.