> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://handbook.aiql.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Artifacts API

> Canvases, dashboards, documents, and presentations

The **Artifacts API** is how Observatory work products are created, read, updated, and listed. Artifacts live in a workspace that the [Middleware API](/products/middleware) owns. [Observatory](/products/observatory) is the authoring surface. The [React SDK](/products/react-sdk) embeds the same artifacts in a customer's product.

## What it covers

* **Inquiries** — Explore threads against ingested workspace knowledge.
* **Canvases** — Brainstorm boards.
* **Dashboards** — Analyze views over workspace data.
* **Documents** — authored documents from the knowledge layer.
* **Presentations** — decks of the same material.

Artifacts are not sources. Sources are ingested inputs on the Middleware API. Artifacts are outputs teams produce on top of that knowledge.

The [Python SDK](/products/python-sdk) and [TypeScript SDK](/products/typescript-sdk) expose canvases and dashboards as typed clients. The [React SDK](/products/react-sdk) embeds canvases, dashboards, chat, documents, and presentations.

Related APIs: [Middleware API](/products/middleware), [Connectors API](/products/connectors-api).