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Claude Documents & Artifacts Lab

Use Claude to work through dense documents, maintain project context, and turn an idea into a useful, shareable Artifact.

7 lessons 3h 30m Intermediate

Course overview

This is a practical lab for document-heavy work. You will set up a Claude project, interrogate a small source pack, draft from evidence, and make a simple Artifact that is useful beyond the chat.

What you will build

Your capstone is a decision kit: a sourced briefing note plus a small interactive Artifact such as a calculator, checklist, or explainer. The emphasis is not on clever prompting. It is on organizing evidence, preserving constraints, and reviewing the output like an editor.

Inside the lab

  • Choose between a normal chat, a Project, and an Artifact.
  • Prepare PDFs, documents, and spreadsheets for dependable analysis.
  • Separate what a source says from what Claude infers.
  • Give project instructions that survive across related conversations.
  • Publish or share only after a privacy, rights, and usability review.

Best for: intermediate learners who regularly summarize, compare, brief, or prototype. Feature and file limits can vary by plan.

Last reviewed September 2026. Lessons use Anthropic’s current Help Center and documentation as the reference point.

Your route through the course

Syllabus

7 lessons + knowledge check
  • Build the source desk
    • Build a source pack and question ledger
    • Read documents without losing the boundary
  • Draft and prototype
    • Draft an evidence memo, not a summary dump
    • Prototype an Artifact with acceptance criteria
  • Review and share
    • Review privacy, sharing, and remixing
    • Capstone: build a decision kit
01Understand

One clear idea in ordinary language.

02Practice

Apply it to a realistic situation.

03Build

Finish something useful enough to keep.

04Check

Test quality, safety, and your understanding.