Artifact Publish

Publishing an Artifact renders a self-contained HTML (or Markdown) file to a hosted, default-private web page on claude.ai — one the user can open in a browser and later choose to share by link. It is the Claude Code Artifact feature documented at code.claude.com/docs/en/artifacts, and it turns "here's a file, open it locally" or a wall of terminal text into a real, shareable page.

This skill is about the decision (when to publish) and the mechanics (how to publish correctly) — not visual design.

Load artifact-design first. It calibrates how much design investment a request warrants and carries the look-and-feel fundamentals. This skill deliberately does not reinvent that guidance — it defers to it. artifact-design is the how it looks; artifact-publish is the should-I-publish-and-how-do-I-ship-it.

Announce at start: "Using artifact-publish to ship [thing] as a hosted Artifact."

When to publish — and when not to

Publishing is the right move when the deliverable is visual or interactive and reads better as a page than as terminal text or a file the user has to find and open: