A piece of generated output is promoted out of the reply stream onto its own persistent surface — beside the conversation, directly editable, iterated in place while the dialogue steers it.
Resources & references
- AI UX Playground — Chat Artifacts
- AI Interface Layout Library — Prompt + Canvas, AI Workspace
- aiuxpatterns.com — Result Rendered Preview
To-do
The name is a placeholder — candidates: detached artefact, output canvas, promoted output. The transcript-vs-artefact divergence force is the interesting one and has no literature attached yet.
Consequences
- the work-product holds still on its own surface while the conversation continues alongside as the way of steering it — talk and thing stop competing for the same column
- two surfaces now claim the truth: the artefact and the transcript can disagree about what was decided, and edits made directly don't narrate themselves back into the talk
- the artefact outlives the exchange — versionable, exportable, shareable — which is where the conversation's value ends up living
Related patterns
Enacts
- Malleability — gives the output a surface where direct manipulation applies at all
Complements
- Editing in place — once detached, the artefact is edited directly rather than re-asked for
- Draft and publish — the detached artefact is the surface draft and published states attach to
Related
- Workspace — a minimal workspace grown out of a chat — one context, two surfaces
- Living document — a detached artefact that keeps being regenerated shades into a living document
Preceded by
- Generated content — the promotion acts on output the generation produced in-stream
Hosted by
- Conversation — born in the exchange and promoted out of it; the chat remains the artefact's control surface