| name | artifact-builder |
| description | Builds reusable ThinkWork Computer apps and interactive artifacts from research prompts. Use when the user asks to build, create, generate, or make a dashboard, app, report, briefing, workspace, or other interactive surface. |
Artifact Builder
Use this skill when the user wants Computer to produce an interactive, reusable artifact. The expected output is a fast unsaved app preview first, not just a prose answer. Save only after the user explicitly asks to keep the preview.
Contract
- Research with the available tools and thread context.
- If live sources are missing or partial, keep going with the best available workspace, memory, context, web, or fixture data. Keep the visible app focused on the user's requested output; do not render provenance, source coverage, or recipe/refresh explainers unless the user explicitly asks for them.
- Keep app generation and saving in this parent turn. Do not use
delegate or delegate_to_workspace to write, generate, or save the app.
- Look up shadcn components on demand, not up front. Draft the TSX in your head first — the small, focused set of components a typical dashboard or report needs (usually 5-8:
Card, Table/DataTable, Badge, Button, Tabs, one chart, sometimes Tooltip or Dialog). Then call get_component_source (or get_block) only for the specific components you are about to render. Do not fan out list_components, search_registry, get_component_source, and get_block in parallel across many components before writing any TSX — that pattern wastes tool calls, slows the turn dramatically, and risks deadlocking the shadcn MCP server. Treat the shadcn MCP like a precision lookup, not a bulk registry crawl. If MCP is unavailable, use the compact local registry generated from packages/ui/registry/generated-app-components.json or the runtime shadcn_registry helper. If neither source is available, stop with a structured guidance error instead of emitting TSX.
- Generate TSX using approved shadcn-compatible primitives from
@thinkwork/ui plus approved domain primitives from @thinkwork/computer-stdlib. You must use approved shadcn primitives for their roles. Hand-rolled replacements for cards, tabs, badges, buttons, tables, selects, form controls, dialogs, sheets, separators, tooltips, scroll areas, charts, or maps are rejected.
- Never embed Theme CSS,
<style> tags, or app-owned theme objects in artifact metadata or TSX. App style is tenant-controlled host configuration. Build with semantic shadcn token classes and chart variables so the host-injected style controls the rendered iframe.
- Export a deterministic
refresh() function whenever the result should be refreshable. Refresh must rerun saved source queries or deterministic transforms; it must not reinterpret the whole user request.
- Call
preview_app before responding. Pass at least name, files, and metadata. Metadata must include threadId, prompt, agentVersion, modelId, uiRegistryVersion, uiRegistryDigest, and shadcnMcpToolCalls when available. Use ["local_registry_fallback"] for shadcnMcpToolCalls when MCP was unavailable but the local registry was consulted.
- Call
save_app only after the user explicitly asks to save or keep the preview. Save metadata must preserve the preview's registry, data-provenance, prompt, source, agent, and model metadata. It must not include theme CSS.
- After
preview_app returns ok, answer concisely with what is ready to inspect. After save_app returns ok, answer concisely with what was saved and the /artifacts/{appId} route.
- Never use emoji as icons, status markers, bullets, tabs, headings, empty states, or data labels in generated apps. Use
lucide-react named icon imports only when an icon materially improves scannability; otherwise use plain text, Badge, or approved registry components.
Host Chrome And Runtime
The Computer host renders generated Apps inside host-provided Artifact chrome: title, App label, open-full action, refresh action placement, route header, iframe wrapper, and future provenance/version controls. Your TSX should render only the app body or canvas content.
Do not create an outer artifact card, duplicate route header, App badge, "Open full" button, refresh recipe, source coverage, evidence, or provenance panel unless the user explicitly asks for that in the app body.
Generated Apps run in the sandboxed iframe runtime for both preview and save. Do not assume access to parent app globals, credentials, cookies, local storage, window navigation, network, dynamic imports, or browser APIs outside the supported stdlib surface.
App Shape
Use App.tsx as the main file. Export one default React component. Prefer concise component-local data transforms over large abstractions. Do not use network calls, browser globals, dynamic imports, eval, or raw HTML injection.
Component System
Generated dashboards must look like ThinkWork product UI, not raw HTML. The shadcn registry is the source of truth for approved generated-app components, examples, roles, and substitutions. Import structure and controls from @thinkwork/ui: Card, CardHeader, CardTitle, CardDescription, CardContent, Badge, Button, Tabs, TabsList, TabsTrigger, TabsContent, Table, TableHeader, TableBody, TableRow, TableHead, TableCell, Select, Checkbox, Switch, Tooltip, Dialog, Sheet, ScrollArea, Separator, ChartContainer, Combobox, and DropdownMenu where applicable.
Use @thinkwork/computer-stdlib for semantic dashboard primitives such as AppHeader, KpiStrip, BarChart, StackedBarChart, DataTable, MapView, and formatters. It is fine to combine stdlib charts with @thinkwork/ui layout chrome.
Use shadcn semantic tokens, not one-off colors: bg-background, text-foreground, bg-card, text-card-foreground, border-border, text-muted-foreground, bg-muted, text-primary, text-destructive, and chart colors from var(--chart-1) through var(--chart-5). User-uploaded shadcn Create Theme CSS is injected by the host from tenant app style settings; do not paste a <style> tag or theme metadata into App.tsx.
Do not use emoji icons. Use lucide-react named icon imports only when an icon materially improves scannability; otherwise use plain text, Badge, or approved registry components.
Do not create adjacent plain text tabs, raw <button> controls, raw <table> layouts for tabular data, raw form controls, inline-pill badges, chart wrappers outside ChartContainer, or bespoke card CSS. Tabs must use Tabs/TabsList/TabsTrigger; data grids must use DataTable or Table; status labels must use Badge; general metric panels may use Card or KpiStrip; charts must use the approved chart surface; maps must use MapView.
For CRM, sales, pipeline, opportunity, account-risk, stage-exposure, stale-activity, or LastMile dashboards, top-level KPIs must use KpiStrip from @thinkwork/computer-stdlib. Do not hand-compose KPI metrics as individual full-width Card components, do not stack KPI cards vertically, and do not rely on generated grid-cols-* or responsive md:grid-cols-* Tailwind layout classes for the core dashboard structure. Use compiled stdlib primitives for the dashboard shape and reserve Card for chart, table, or detail sections.
Good apps include:
- Focused body content that starts at the useful work, not wrapper chrome.
KpiStrip for CRM dashboard key totals.- Charts or tables that make comparison easy.
- Empty, partial, and failed-source states proportional to the requested task.
Dashboard apps must be dashboard-shaped, not prose-only markdown reports. Do not save a dashboard artifact that is primarily a prose report, markdown summary, or stack of text-only cards. A useful dashboard should show at least one meaningful visual comparison through a chart, table, map, timeline, or other structured UI surface.
Maps
When the user asks for a map (locations, regions, routes, geographic comparisons), use MapView from @thinkwork/computer-stdlib. Do NOT embed an OpenStreetMap.org iframe, do NOT roll your own react-leaflet <MapContainer>, and do NOT enable scrollWheelZoom — MapView handles the tile provider, theming, default-icon bundler fix, and scroll-trap defaults correctly. It uses Mapbox tiles when VITE_MAPBOX_PUBLIC_TOKEN is set (light/dark style swap from useTheme) and falls back to OpenStreetMap tiles when unset.
Pass fit (one of {type: "country", code: "<ISO-3166-1-alpha-2>"}, {type: "bbox", bounds: [[lat,lng],[lat,lng]]}, or {type: "auto"}) plus optional markers, polylines, and geojson arrays. See @thinkwork/computer-stdlib/MapView for the full prop shape.
Preview And Save
The first useful result should be an unsaved preview. preview_app validates and renders the same TSX payload shape that save_app persists later, using the same generated-app policy. Do not save every preview as a durable artifact row.
Use only real available data, partial real data, or honest empty states. Do not invent CRM accounts, customers, metrics, events, opportunities, locations, or evidence to make a preview look complete. Missing or partial inputs should produce a runnable app with proportional empty states and concise limitations.
When the user asks to save, promote the preview by calling save_app with the same files and provenance metadata. Include the preview's uiRegistryVersion, uiRegistryDigest, and shadcnMcpToolCalls or ["local_registry_fallback"] so the saved artifact records which shadcn registry source shaped the TSX.
Composing With Domain Skills
Domain skills like crm-dashboard, research-dashboard, and map-artifact add their own layout, component, and data-shape guidance on top of this skill. When one of them is in play, follow its guidance for layout, top-level KPIs, chart choices, and data shape — and use this skill only for the artifact mechanics (component lookups, preview_app, save_app, validation, registry policy). Do not duplicate or override the domain skill's structure with a generic dashboard layout.
Missing Data
Missing data is not a reason to stop before creating the preview. Create a runnable app that handles gaps gracefully, then ask for source setup, approval, or save confirmation as a follow-up when needed.
