Features
Artifacts
Apps, games, tools and pages Gluon builds for you: asking for one, editing and versions, sharing with groups or a link, publishing and remixing, saved data and limits.
An artifact is an app, game, tool or page Gluon builds for you, such as a grocery-bill splitter, a revision quiz, a trip planner or a birthday invitation. It opens beside the chat and on its own page, and keeps its own saved data.
Some artifact features, such as publishing to everyone, are still rolling out and may not be available to you yet.
Ask for one
Section titled “Ask for one”- “Build a chore chart for the kids where they can tick off tasks each day.”
- “Make a quiz from the biology chapter I uploaded.”
- “Create a page comparing these three phones, with a chart.”
- “Make a shared shopping list app for our family group.”
Gluon writes the app in its workspace, builds it and shows it as a card in the chat; your private chat opens it in the side panel. Ask for changes the same way: “make the buttons bigger” or “add a dark mode”. If something breaks, use Fix on the app.
For a one-off answer, Gluon shows a card instead. Ask for an artifact when you want something to use, keep or share.
Versions
Section titled “Versions”Every change saves a new version. On the artifact’s page you can open the history, switch between versions and Restore an older one as the newest; saved data is kept. Make a copy copies one version into a new private artifact without its history or data.
Where artifacts live
Section titled “Where artifacts live”- Artifacts in the main navigation shows every artifact you can open, with search and filters. The side panel’s library lists the current chat’s or group’s artifacts.
- An artifact made in your private chat belongs to you; one made in a group belongs to the group, and every member can edit it.
- Deleting a chat keeps its artifacts. Deleting the artifact, or the group that owns it, removes it.
Sharing
Section titled “Sharing”To share an app with your family or friends, share it with your group; everyone in the group can then open it.
| Option | Who can open it |
|---|---|
| Private (the default) | You, or the group that owns it |
| Shared with a group | Members of one of your groups |
| Link sharing | Anyone signed in to Gluon who has the link; they get personal data only and can make a copy |
| Published | Anyone signed in to Gluon; they can remix it |
Widening who can see an artifact shows everything in it to them, so Gluon warns you first.
Publishing and remixing
Section titled “Publishing and remixing”Publishing makes one chosen version public, with a public title, description and credit. Later edits don’t change what’s published until you publish a newer version. Anyone signed in can Remix a published artifact, which copies it into a new chat of their own; remixes stay theirs after you unpublish. Visitors can Report a published artifact.
A group artifact’s publisher chooses the credit: their own name, or the group’s name “published by” them.
Saved data
Section titled “Saved data”Artifacts can save data:
- Personal data follows each person across their devices: up to 5 MiB per person per artifact.
- Shared data is seen by everyone the artifact is shared with, such as a family’s shopping list: up to 20 MiB per artifact. People opening it by link or as a published artifact get personal data only. Changing which group an artifact is shared with clears its shared data.
Artifacts that use AI
Section titled “Artifacts that use AI”An artifact can call an AI model, for example to generate quiz questions. Each person who uses it pays for their own calls, from their own credits, after agreeing once per version. Calls are limited to $1 a day per person across all artifacts.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”- Up to 100 builds a day per person or group, two at a time.
- Source up to 4 MiB; images and other assets up to 25 MiB each and 100 MiB per artifact.
- Artifacts have no server of their own: no backend, database or server code beyond saved data and AI calls.