Artifacts

What is an artifact?

An artifact is a saved analytical output from an Agent conversation. Artifacts are more durable than chat text. They stay linked to conversations, can be reviewed later, and can often be reused or promoted.

[picture 1. Artifact workspace with artifact cards and provenance labels]

Artifact types

Stackless supports five practical artifact categories:

Brief artifacts

A brief is useful when the Agent needs to summarize an analysis for a reader. It can include:

• Executive summary.
• Key metrics.
• What changed.
• Why it changed.
• Risks.
• Recommended actions.
• Supporting evidence.

Ask for a brief when the output should read like an operating update or analysis memo.

Prompt example:

Create a brief summarizing last week's revenue performance, including key metrics, what changed, why it changed, risks, and recommended actions.

[picture 2. Brief artifact with executive summary, key metrics, and evidence sections]

Finding cards

A finding card is a compact artifact for one analytical claim. It includes:

• Main claim.
• Supporting metric.
• Segment.
• Confidence.
• Caveat.
• Next action.

Ask for a finding card when you want a single insight to review, compare, or add to a broader report.

Prompt example:

Create a finding card for the biggest revenue driver this month, including confidence, caveat, and next action.

[picture 3. Finding card artifact with confidence and next action]

Table artifacts

A table artifact is a static snapshot of rows and columns. It can include:

• Column labels and data types.
• Source query metadata.
• Exact or abbreviated data fidelity.
• Total row count.
• Row explanations.
• Sensitive or masked columns.
• Search and sort controls.
• CSV and XLSX export.

Table artifacts are not automatically refreshed. To update a table artifact, ask the Agent to rerun the source query or update the artifact.

Prompt examples:

Create a table artifact of the top 25 campaigns by spend, revenue, ROAS, and new customers for the last 30 days.

Mask customer email and phone columns in the table artifact.

[picture 4. Example of a table artifact with masked sensitive column and export controls]

Chart cards

A chart card is a reusable chart or KPI widget. It can be previewed in the artifact workspace and copied into a new dashboard.

Chart cards can support time range changes when the underlying query has a time dimension. They are useful when you want to validate one visualization before building a full dashboard.

Prompt examples:

Create a chart card showing weekly net revenue for the last 90 days.

Change the chart card to year to date and copy it to a new dashboard.

[picture 5. Chart card artifact with time range control and copy-to-dashboard button]

Dashboard drafts as artifacts

Private dashboards created by the Agent appear in the artifact workspace. They are larger than chart cards and are the right choice for recurring reporting.

Use a dashboard when you need:

• Multiple widgets.
• Filters.
• Tabs.
• Published sharing.
• Scheduled exports.
• Version history.
• Ongoing refresh.

[picture 6. Draft dashboard artifact in the Agent workspace]

Artifact provenance

Artifacts can show where they were created or last updated:

• Created here.
• Created in another conversation.
• Attached from another conversation.
• Updated here from another conversation.

This helps you understand whether the current conversation owns the artifact or is continuing work started elsewhere.

Choosing the right output

Deleting artifacts

Artifacts can be deleted from the artifact workspace when they are no longer needed. Deleting an artifact removes that saved output; it does not delete source data or warehouse tables.