TL;DR Type
Draw this repo's architecture on a whiteboardand open the link. Select a block to ask for changes to it. It is in beta on every paid plan; on Enterprise it ships turned off.
Claude Whiteboards launched on November 10, 2026 as a shared board inside Claude. In Claude Code it shows up as one more artifact type: you ask for a drawing of your repo, it reads the code, creates the board and hands you a link. The Claude Code docs only cover the Slides, Design and Docs templates today, so none of this is written down anywhere official yet.
What comes out
This is the board it drew of wmedia.es, a Laravel app, from its routes, controllers and models:
Redrawn from the real board.
It took two calls: one to create the board and one with 18 writes (title, takeaway line, section, seven blocks, six arrows and the key). It is not a picture. Each block is an element that you or your team can move, rename or delete on claude.ai.
How to ask for one
1. Ask for the drawing
Draw this repo's architecture on a whiteboard
It works the same for a flow ("how an order goes from cart to invoice") or a plan ("the phases of the Postgres migration").
2. Open the link and share it
The board starts private. The Share button on claude.ai decides who else can open it. Until then, the link only works for you.
3. Point and ask
With the board open beside the chat, every message of yours tells Claude what you have selected. You don't need to describe the block:
Add the missing models to this block
In the test, adding LeadMagnet to the models block was a single write to that element. Claude doesn't rebuild the board: it reads it and changes only what the request touches, so it never overwrites what someone else is moving.
4. Keep it current
Update the whiteboard with what changed on this branch
In a different session, pick the artifact up with /artifacts first, and Claude keeps writing to the same link.
What a board can hold
| Element | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Blocks | Rectangles, diamonds, database cylinders, queues, documents, clouds |
| Sections | Grouping what belongs together, like the app in the drawing above |
| Arrows | Joining blocks, with a label when the meaning isn't obvious |
| Tables | Comparing point by point |
| Drawings | Illustrations Claude draws, for what is easier to see than to read |
| Embeds | Small pages that work: a poll, a calculator, a prototype |
The limit is 800 elements per board. Two things worth knowing before you ask: it doesn't draw people, and to explain software it uses blocks and arrows, not illustrations, unless you ask for them.
According to Anthropic, a board can later become a doc or a deck, or move to Miro, Lucid or Vani. That part is untested from Claude Code.
Where it is available
- Plans: every paid plan, in beta.
- Team: on by default.
- Enterprise: off by default. An Owner turns it on under Organization settings > Artifacts.
- Claude Code: the Whiteboard type shows up on both v2.1.319 and v2.1.322. It depends on the rollout reaching your account, not on the version.
If you have never published an artifact from the terminal, start with how artifacts work in Claude Code. And if what you need is a table with formulas, you ask for Claude Sheets the same way.
Official docs: Whiteboards, Sheets and Data announcement · Artifacts in Claude Code
Requirements: a paid plan, signed in with a claude.ai account (/login). Artifacts aren't available with an API key, or on Bedrock, Agent Platform or Foundry.
