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AI ARTIFACT VIEWER

A viewer for the files AI coding tools create

Artifact Desk is the local desktop front door for files created by Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, and technical collaborators.

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Short answer: An AI artifact viewer turns the files produced by coding agents into understandable documents, data views, previews, and safe fallbacks. Artifact Desk does this locally on macOS and Windows.

What is an AI artifact?

An AI artifact is a file created or modified as the output of an AI-assisted workflow. It can be a Markdown brief, JSON dataset, CSV report, HTML prototype, React component, diagram, log, image, PDF, configuration file, or a format the recipient does not recognize.

The problem is not usually generating the file. The problem is the last mile: opening it in a form the recipient can understand, checking whether it is correct, and making a small change without breaking its structure.

How Artifact Desk handles that last mile

  1. Open the real local path. Use Open Anything, drag and drop, paste a path, double-click an associated file, or let a local coding agent call the operating system.
  2. Choose the useful lens. Markdown becomes a readable document. Structured data becomes a tree or table. HTML becomes a preview. Images and PDFs use familiar viewers.
  3. Keep source authoritative. Visual views are projections of the real file, not detached cloud copies.
  4. Fail safely. Unknown text opens as text. Unknown binary is limited to metadata and bounded hexadecimal inspection.

What opens in Artifact Desk?

DocumentsMarkdown, plain text, rich text, and PDF viewing
Structured dataJSON, JSONC, CSV, TSV, YAML, TOML, XML, and environment files
Frontend artifactsHTML, React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Astro, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript
Visual and diagnosticImages, SVG, logs, metadata, and bounded binary inspection

Is this an IDE?

No. Artifact Desk does not install dependencies, run a development server, or replace a developer's coding environment. Its design view is an inert, deliberately bounded approximation for supported static elements. Source remains available when a change requires precision.

Is it private?

Artifact contents are never uploaded. File reading, previews, and supported edits happen locally. Trial and license operations use limited product and device-license metadata, and Stripe processes checkout details. Read the complete privacy policy.

Related guides

See the dedicated guides for the Markdown viewer, visual JSON viewer, HTML viewer and editor, and local file conversion.