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When the assistant produces a file — a spreadsheet, a slide deck, a document, a visualization — it appears in the response so you can open and download it without leaving the chat.

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File cards in responses

Files generated by (or attached to) a message show as file cards in the response. Images appear as inline thumbnails with a hover download button. Interactive visualizations can render directly in the message as live dashboards with charts, tables, and metric tiles. If a visualization can’t load, the message falls back to a plain file card so you can still open or download the underlying file. A few things you might see on file cards:
  • A loading skeleton while the file is still being generated. Large files and long analyses can take a few minutes.
  • File unavailable — the assistant referenced a file that never finished generating. Send the request again to regenerate it.

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The full-page file viewer

Click a file card to open the file in a full-page viewer, with built-in viewers for CSV tables, images, PDFs, and HTML. From the viewer you can:
  • Copy Content — copy the text of text-based files to your clipboard
  • Download — save the file to your computer
  • Return to chat — go back to the conversation
For Markdown and plain-text files, the download offers a choice of format: export as a Word Doc or keep the original file format.
File links refresh automatically before download, so they don’t go stale mid-session. If you return to an old file much later and see “File not found — The file may have expired or been removed,” re-run the request in chat to regenerate it.

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Generated files and Artifacts

Outputs the assistant produces in chat — documents, spreadsheets, slides, images, and interactive dashboards — are saved as Artifacts. An artifact has its own page outside the chat, with sharing and version history, so it’s the way to hand off the assistant’s work: chats are private to you, but artifacts can be shared with teammates. You don’t create artifacts manually; they come from what the assistant generates.