Step one: where you build it

This matters more than anything you type. There are two routes and only one is reliable.

Do this

Cowork sidebar → Artifacts → New artifact.

A new session opens and asks which connectors it may use. Approve the one you need, read access only. That question is the whole reason this route works — a live artifact can only use connectors approved at the moment it's created, so if you click past it you get a page that can never read anything.

Don't do this

Asking for an artifact inside an ordinary chat. Sometimes it works; when it doesn't you get a published page that never re-reads, and it looks identical to the real thing. If what you end up with isn't labelled Cowork, it won't re-read.

And check this first

You have to be in the right organisation. On a Wix Enterprise account all of this works. On some other accounts the live-artifact option simply isn't there, and Claude will tell you it can't build one — it's telling the truth. Check the account menu at the top of the sidebar before you blame the feature.

Step two: the request

Pick one. Fill in the two boxes. Copy what comes out.

What do you want to build?

Step three: check it's real

A frozen page and a live one look identical. Thirty seconds settles it.

0 of 4 done
✓ That's a live artifact. Open it tomorrow instead of rebuilding anything.

Three things worth knowing

The one line to remember

"Live" means it re-asks — not that the answer is newer. The page fetches when you open it, so it's always freshly asked. But it can only show what's in the source: if the underlying data is three weeks old, so is your page. And the newest row in any dataset is usually incomplete — a part-month always looks like a collapse.

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