How to Make a Claude Project Public (and What You Can Share)
October 29, 2026
You can't make a Claude Project public on the open internet. There's no "Make project public" link that lets anyone view your project's files and instructions, whatever some how-to pages claim. In Anthropic's own documentation, a "public" project means one thing: visible to everyone inside your Team or Enterprise organization.
What you can share depends on your plan:
- Team and Enterprise: share a whole project with colleagues, with "Can view" or "Can edit" permissions, or make it public to your organization.
- Free, Pro, and Max: projects stay personal. You can share individual chats with a public link, and share artifacts with a link or by email.
- Everyone: share a chat with specific people by email.
This guide covers each option step by step, what the other person actually sees, and how to hand someone your project setup when no sharing button exists. Every detail comes from Anthropic's help center as of October 29, 2026.
What Claude Projects Are
Anthropic's What are projects? article describes them as "self-contained workspaces with their own chat histories and knowledge bases." Each project holds three things:
- Project knowledge: documents, text, or code you upload as background
- Project instructions: guidance Claude applies to every chat in the project, like tone or role
- Chats: the conversations you run inside it
The help center says projects are available to all users, and free accounts can create up to five. Anthropic's pricing page lists Projects among the Pro plan's features, so if you don't see them on a free account, that's why. On paid plans, Claude switches project knowledge to retrieval (RAG) automatically as it nears the context window limit. We covered the file-size side in Claude upload limits.
That's the feature. The sharing question is what trips people up.
Can You Make a Claude Project Public?
Not in the sense most people mean. Here's what each kind of sharing reaches:
| What you share | Who can see it | Plans | Account needed to view? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole project (public to org) | Everyone in your organization | Team, Enterprise | Yes, an org account |
| Whole project (private, invited) | Invited members only | Team, Enterprise | Yes, an org account |
| A chat, public link | Anyone with the link | Free, Pro, Max | No |
| A chat, to specific people | The email addresses you enter | All plans | Signed in with that email |
| An artifact | Depends on link and invite settings | All plans, with differences | Usually yes |
Anthropic's project visibility article says "Project visibility and sharing features are available to users on Team or Enterprise plans." Its two visibility options are:
- Public: "Everyone in your organization can view and use the project."
- Private: "Only invited members can view and use the project."
Nothing in that article, or in any other Anthropic help page we read, describes sharing a project outside your organization. On a Pro or Max account, there's no project share button at all.
So if a tutorial shows a toggle that publishes your project to the web, it's describing something Anthropic doesn't document.
How to Share a Claude Project on Team or Enterprise
If you're on a Team or Enterprise plan, sharing a project takes under a minute.
- Open the project and click Share next to the project name.
- Add people by name or email. You can paste a list of emails to add several at once. Enterprise admins can also add groups, a feature Anthropic labels beta.
- Pick a permission level for each person.
- Confirm.
You can also set visibility when you first create a project: keep it private, or share it with your broader organization.
Can view vs Can edit
| Permission | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Can view | See project contents, knowledge, and instructions, and chat within the project. Can't edit it. |
| Can edit | Change project instructions and knowledge, update member settings, and contribute to the project |
One detail matters for privacy: chats stay personal. Even in a public project, a member's chats aren't visible to others unless that person shares them. Sharing a project shares the setup, not everyone's conversations.
If the Share button doesn't work
Admins control this. Anthropic's project sharing controls article says Primary Owners and Owners can turn project sharing off. When they do:
- You'll see "Project sharing is turned off by your administrator" in the Share menu.
- Projects already shared stay shared, but public projects become private.
- Nobody can create new public projects.
On Enterprise, admins can also set project sharing by role. If you need it turned on, the owner of your Claude organization is the person to ask.
How to Share a Claude Chat Publicly
On Free, Pro, and Max, a single chat is the closest you get to a public Claude link. Anthropic's public links article says these work on Free, Pro, and Max plans, and "No Claude account is required" to view one.
To share a chat:
- Open the chat and click Share in the upper right.
- Click Share again in the pop-up to create the link.
- Copy the link and send it.
What the viewer gets is a snapshot. Per Anthropic's share and unshare chats article:
- The snapshot includes all messages sent before you shared it, including artifacts.
- Messages you send afterward stay private. Unshare and share again to update the snapshot.
- Files you attached aren't included, and raw data from MCP tool calls stays hidden.
- It's view only. Viewers can't continue the chat.
Shared chat pages carry a "noindex" tag, so search engines are asked not to list them. Anthropic is clear that it can't control copies, reposts, or every crawler, so don't share a link you'd mind being forwarded. To turn a link off, use the Share menu or Settings > Privacy.
Team and Enterprise members can only share chats within their organization.
Share a chat with specific people
If a public link is too open, Anthropic's share a chat with specific people feature works on every plan, on claude.ai on the web. Open the chat, click Share, enter email addresses under "People with access," and click Send. Each link only works for the address you entered. It isn't available in the mobile app yet.
How to Share Claude Artifacts
Artifacts are the other thing people actually mean when they ask how to make a Claude project public. If you built a tool, a page, or a small app with Claude, the artifact is the part worth sharing.
Anthropic's Share artifacts article splits artifacts into two kinds.
Current artifacts use a Share button:
- Open the artifact and click Share.
- Under Who has access, choose a link setting. On Pro and Max that's "Only you" or "Anyone with the link," which means anyone signed in to Claude.
- Copy the link and send it.
On Pro and Max you can also invite people by email (beta) with "Can view," "Commenter," or "Can edit" access, up to 50 outside invitees per artifact. Invitations not accepted within 30 days expire.
Legacy artifacts, the ones made in a chat, show Publish instead on Free, Pro, and Max. Publishing creates a public link, and Anthropic says "Anyone with the link can view and use it without a Claude account." You can also embed it on approved domains. Be careful with unpublishing: you can't republish the same artifact afterward, and its stored data is deleted.
On Team and Enterprise, artifacts stay inside your organization by default. "Anyone with the link" only works if an owner turned on external sharing. If the artifact was made in a project, viewers also need access to that project.
How to Give Someone Your Project Setup
If you're on an individual plan and want someone else to have your project, the honest answer is to hand over the parts, not the project:
- Copy your project instructions into a document.
- Gather your knowledge files, minus anything private.
- Send both, and have the other person create a new project and paste them in.
- Share one good chat with a public link, so they can see what the project produces.
It's manual, and it goes stale the moment you update your version. That's the general problem with sharing AI setups as screenshots and pasted prompts, which we dig into in how to share AI workflows. If you're weighing Claude Projects against ChatGPT's equivalents for this kind of reuse, Claude Projects vs custom GPTs compares how each one handles it. To keep a copy of your own conversations, export your Claude chats first.
FAQ
How do I make a Claude project public?
On Team and Enterprise plans, set the project's visibility to public, which makes it visible to everyone in your organization. Anthropic doesn't document any way to make a project public on the internet.
Can I share a Claude project on a Pro or Max plan?
No. Anthropic says project sharing is a Team and Enterprise feature. On individual plans, share chats or artifacts instead, or send your instructions and files so someone can rebuild the project.
Can people outside my organization see a shared project?
Anthropic's documentation describes project sharing only inside your organization. Group members must belong to the project's organization to get access.
Does sharing a project share my chats?
No. Chats in a project stay private to the person who started them unless that person shares them.
Does a shared Claude chat include project files?
Files you attached to the chat aren't included in the snapshot. Anthropic's chat sharing articles don't say whether project knowledge appears, so assume a chat link shows the conversation only.
Can someone continue my shared Claude chat?
No. Public chat links are view only.
Where is the official Claude projects documentation?
Anthropic's help center covers projects in how to create and manage projects, plus the visibility and sharing articles linked above.
Key Takeaways
- No internet-public projects. "Public" means public to your Team or Enterprise organization.
- Team and Enterprise can share whole projects with "Can view" or "Can edit" permissions. Admins can turn this off.
- Free, Pro, and Max can share chats by public link and share artifacts by link or email invite.
- Shared chats are snapshots: view only, no attached files, later messages stay private.
- To hand over a project on an individual plan, send the instructions and files and share one example chat.
If the thing you really want to share is a setup that works, not a single conversation, that's the problem Taku is built around. It's an AI-native desktop workspace where you can mirror a workflow someone already got working, remix it for your own files, and keep it running instead of rebuilding it from pasted prompts. Taku is in Beta, and the Mac app is available now.