Artifacts

The Artifacts tab in the Info Panel (right sidebar) aggregates every file associated with a conversation — generated images, videos, and PDFs from tool calls, user-uploaded attachments, and indexed documents. It is one of three tabs in the Info Panel alongside Config and Info.

Open it with Cmd+I (or Ctrl+I) to toggle the Info Panel, then select the Artifacts tab.

Three sections

The Artifacts panel organizes content into three distinct sections:

Section	What it contains	Layout
Generated	Images, videos, and PDFs produced by tool calls (image generation, video generation, save paper PDF)	2-column grid for images/videos, list for PDFs
Attachments	Images uploaded by the user in this conversation	2-column grid
Documents	Files added to the RAG pipeline — indexed, pending, or directly injected	Folder tree with collapsible directories

When a conversation has no artifacts, the panel shows an empty state: “No artifacts yet — Generated images, videos, and attached files will appear here.”

Generated content

Generated items are extracted from completed tool call results across all messages in the conversation — including nested agent sub-tool calls. Three tool types produce artifacts:

Tool	Artifact type	Metadata tracked
image_generation	Image	model, size, prompt
video_generation	Video	model, duration, size, cost
save_paper_pdf	PDF	page count estimate, size

Images and videos in the grid

Generated images and videos display in a 2-column grid with aspect-square thumbnails.

Each thumbnail shows:

• The image or video preview (object-cover fill)
• A type badge in the bottom-left corner (image or video icon, plus duration for videos)
• A prompt tooltip on hover — the generation prompt (or model name as fallback), shown over a gradient overlay, line-clamped to 2 lines

Hover toolbar (top-right corner):

Action	Images	Videos
Copy	Copies the image to clipboard as a bitmap	—
Download	Saves to your Downloads folder	Saves to your Downloads folder
Delete	Removes from disk and UI	Removes from disk and UI

Click an image thumbnail to open it in a lightbox — a full-screen modal (up to 90% viewport) with the image at native resolution. Click a video thumbnail to open a video preview dialog with full playback controls and autoplay.

PDFs in the list

Generated PDFs display as horizontal list items with a red file icon:

[FileOutput icon]  research-summary.pdf
                   ~12 pages · 48 KB

Hover actions:

• Open — opens the PDF in your default PDF viewer
• Reveal in Finder — shows the file in your file manager
• Delete — removes from disk

Inline rendering in tool call blocks

Generated content also renders inline within the conversation, inside the tool call block that produced it. The inline view provides additional actions not available in the Artifacts panel:

Inline image actions (hover toolbar):

• Copy — copies to clipboard
• Download — saves to Downloads
• Add to chat — adds the generated image as a pending attachment in the composer, so you can send it back to the model in your next message (e.g., for iteration or analysis)
• Delete — removes from disk
• Drag-drop — drag the image out of QARK to any application that accepts image drops

Inline video actions:

• Download and Delete (no copy or add-to-chat for videos)
• Drag-drop supported

Inline PDF actions:

• Open in default viewer
• Reveal in Finder

Deletion is synchronized between the inline view and the Artifacts panel — deleting from either location removes the item from both.

User attachments

Images you attach to messages (via Add Images, clipboard, or drag-drop) appear in the Attachments section as a 2-column grid of thumbnails. Click any thumbnail to open it in the lightbox.

Actions:

• Delete (X icon on hover) — removes the attachment from the message and deletes the file from disk

Clear All Attachments — a button below the grid that removes every user attachment in the conversation. Uses a two-stage confirmation: click once to reveal Confirm/Cancel buttons, click Confirm to execute.

Orphan cleanup: On load, the panel checks whether each attachment file still exists on disk. If a file has been moved or deleted externally, QARK automatically cleans up the metadata and shows a notification: “Removed 1 document (file was deleted from disk).”

Indexed documents

The Documents section (rendered by a separate DocumentsList component) shows files added to the conversation’s RAG pipeline. Documents are grouped into a folder tree — collapsible directories that preserve the original file structure.

Document status badges

Each document shows a color-coded status:

Status	Color	Meaning
indexed	Green	Fully processed — chunked, embedded, and searchable
processing	Blue (pulsing)	Currently being processed
pending	Amber	Queued, waiting to start
direct	Primary	Below RAG threshold, injected directly into context
error	Red	Processing failed — error message shown below filename

Folder headers

Each directory in the tree shows:

• Folder name (collapsible with chevron)
• File count (“5 files”)
• Aggregate status indicator: red “err” badge if any file errored, green chunk count if all indexed, animated loader if processing

Document actions

• Right-click context menu on any document: Reveal in Finder, Delete Document
• Delete All Documents button with two-stage confirmation (same pattern as Clear All Attachments)

For details on how documents are processed and routed, see File Attachments & Auto-Routing and RAG Pipeline.

Actions by content type

Action	Generated images	Generated videos	Generated PDFs	User attachments	Indexed documents
Preview / open	Lightbox	Video modal	Default app	Lightbox	—
Copy	Clipboard (bitmap)	—	—	—	—
Download	Downloads folder	Downloads folder	—	—	—
Add to chat	Composer attachment	—	—	—	—
Drag-drop	To other apps	To other apps	—	—	—
Delete	Disk + UI	Disk + UI	Disk + UI	Disk + metadata	Index + chunks
Reveal in Finder	—	—	File manager	—	File manager
Clear all	—	—	—	All attachments	All documents