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  1. September 19, 2026

    feature

    protect your public share links with a password

    A public link can now ask for a password. Switch on Require a password when you create the link, or add one later from Edit, and anyone who opens it has to enter the password before they see the prototype. It is available on every plan.

    A public link works for anyone who has it, and links travel: they get forwarded, pasted into a channel, left in an old email thread. A password keeps the prototype with the people you meant to show it to. It is useful when:

    • The work is confidential. Client projects under NDA, an unreleased feature, a pitch you are not ready to make public.
    • You are running user tests. Give each round of participants the link and a password, then change the password when the round ends. Turn on guest commenting and they can leave feedback without an account.
    • The link goes somewhere you don't control. A client's shared inbox, a big group chat, a ticket that many people can read. Send the link there and the password somewhere else.
    • You want to end access without breaking the link. Change the password and everyone has to ask you again, while the URL in your deck or doc stays the same.

    Type your own, or press Generate for three short words that are easy to read out on a call. Copy it before you save: once saved, the password can't be shown again, only changed or removed. From the terminal:

    artor share add --password
artor share set <share> --password
artor share set <share> --remove-password

    Good to know:

    • Changing the password locks the link again. Visitors who already got in need the new one.
    • Members skip it. On the password page, Sign in takes a member of your organization straight to the prototype, as long as they can see its Space.
    • Wrong guesses are limited. After too many, the page asks the visitor to wait a few minutes.
    • Admins can require a password on every public link in Settings → Sharing. Links without one stop opening until a password is added, and the same link works again as soon as it is.
    • Password changes show up in the audit log. The password itself never does.

    Also in this release:

    • Hide the review widget when you create a link. The create dialog has a Show the review widget switch for signed-in members, and the CLI has artor share add --hide-widget.
    • A tidier public links table. One line per link, an Access column that shows its password and guest-commenting mode at a glance, a copy button that is always there, the exact expiry date on hover, and a Show disabled switch instead of two tabs. Right-click a row for its actions.

  2. September 19, 2026

    fix

    prototype links open in the right organization

    A link to a prototype, from a comment email or pasted into chat, now opens it even when you're working in another of your organizations. Artor switches you to the organization that holds the prototype, as long as you're a member. Before, the page said "Project not found", or kept loading when no organization was selected. It also works when the organization you had open was deleted or you were removed from it.

    When a prototype really can't be opened, because it was deleted, sits in a Space you can't access, or belongs to an organization you're not in, the page now says Prototype not found with a Go to Spaces button, instead of leaving you stuck.

    Good to know: your current organization is shared by every tab in your browser, so two tabs on prototypes from different organizations switch it back and forth, and the tab you're looking at wins. See Opening a prototype link.

  3. September 19, 2026

    improvement

    an easier comment feed, on any screen

    The comment feed on a prototype's dashboard page is easier to scan. Each thread is a card, and an unread thread has an orange dot on the author's avatar. Every version in the list shows its comment count and how many are new, like "3 comments · 1 new".

    The filters fit on one row: the status select, Mark all read, and a ··· menu where you switch between This version and All versions.

    On a phone, the version list folds into a single card that opens the full list, an open thread fills the screen, and Open latest and Share move into the ··· menu. See Triage from the dashboard.

  4. August 6, 2026

    feature

    let clients comment without an account

    A public link can now collect feedback. Turn on guest commenting and anyone who opens the link can leave comments through the review widget — no Artor account, no sign-up, no invite.

    You choose how much to ask for: comment anonymously, ask for a name, or ask for a name and an email. Set it when you create the link, or change it later in Link settings. From the terminal:

    artor share add --comments name

    Guests see only their own notes, never your team's discussion or another visitor's. Their feedback lands in the same place as everyone else's — the triage list, the widget, and artor comments — clearly marked as guest and grouped per visitor, so you can tell one client's notes from another's. You, an org admin, or a space admin can delete anything a guest wrote.

    Two things worth knowing: guest names and emails are typed by the guest and never verified, so treat them as a signature rather than proof, and guests are never emailed by Artor in any mode. Links you created before today are set to off — nothing you already handed out starts accepting comments on its own.

    Everything else about a public link is unchanged: no source, no remix, nothing else in your org.

    Also in this release:

    • Repoint a live link. Open Edit on a link's row to point it at a different version, or switch between pinned and latest, without changing the URL your visitors already hold.
    • artor share list shows each live link's guest-commenting mode, alongside its mode, expiry, and view count.
    • Tapping a folder on your phone opens that folder. In list view on mobile Safari, every tap used to land in the last folder.

  5. July 16, 2026

    feature

    sign in with a magic link

    You can now sign in without a password at all. Enter your email and Artor sends a one-time sign-in link — open it and you're in. Each link works once and expires after an hour.

    This is the default way to sign in now: nothing to set up, forget, or reset. Passwords still work if you like one — Use a password instead sits right under the link button.

    Enter your email on the login screen and check your inbox.

  6. July 16, 2026

    feature

    sign in with google

    You can now sign in to Artor with your Google account. Pick Continue with Google on the login screen — one click, no password to create or remember.

    If an Artor account already exists for that verified Google email, the two link automatically, so you keep every prototype, comment, and org you're part of. If you're new, it creates your account on the spot with your email already verified, no separate confirmation step.

    Continue with Google is on both the sign-in and sign-up screens now.

  7. July 9, 2026

    feature

    see why a prototype crashed

    When a running prototype fails to boot, you no longer get a blank error page with no explanation. Artor now captures the crash output automatically and shows you the cause, plus a suggested fix.

    artor logs

    Read the crash tail from the terminal, or open the Logs tab in a version's details in the dashboard. Secret values from your environment variables are scrubbed out before the log is stored, so nothing sensitive ends up in the trace.

  8. July 6, 2026

    improvement

    comments on any prototype

    The in-page review widget now works on static prototypes too, not just node servers. Any published version, framework or plain HTML, gets the same commenting experience.

    Drop a pin, quote some text, start a thread, and resolve it, on every prototype you ship.

  9. July 6, 2026

    improvement

    rename your organization

    Picked the wrong name when you signed up, or your team rebranded? You can now rename an organization from Settings without recreating it or losing any prototypes, comments, or history.

    Your preview URLs keep working, and everyone on the team sees the new name right away.

  10. July 4, 2026

    feature

    comment right on the prototype

    Reviewers can now leave comments directly on the live prototype, in the page itself, with no separate tool and no screenshots. Click any element to drop a pin, or highlight a passage of text to quote it, then start a thread.

    Comments are anchored to the element and to the exact version, so a note on v1 never drifts onto v2, and the pin follows the element even as the layout shifts. Threads support replies, resolve, and @mentions of anyone on your team.

    Open a version's preview and start commenting. Everyone in the org sees the same threads.

  11. July 4, 2026

    feature

    react router, remix, and tanstack start

    Artor now publishes React Router v7, Remix, and TanStack Start apps as full running servers, with their API and server-rendered routes intact, alongside the Next.js and static support you already had.

    Point artor publish at your project and Artor detects the framework, builds it the right way, and boot-tests the result before it goes live, so a prototype never silently loses its dynamic routes.

  12. June 27, 2026

    feature

    bring your whole team in

    Artor is built around orgs and teams — everyone on your team sees the same artor, leaves comments, and shares the same workspace. Inviting them is now seamless: they land on the invite page, see the org they're joining, and create an account right there if they don't have one — verified instantly, no separate signup flow.

    If they're already signed in under a different email, they get a clear path to switch before accepting.

    Invite your team from Settings → Members.

  13. June 26, 2026

    feature

    install and update the cli anywhere

    The CLI now installs and updates itself — no manual npm install -g required.

    artor install   # first-time setup
artor update    # stay current

    Works across npm, yarn, pnpm, and bun, and handles enterprise environments where global installs are locked down. When your CLI is out of date, artor publish tells you and offers to update before continuing.

  14. June 25, 2026

    feature

    recopy a share link any time

    You can now get a live share link back from the CLI whenever you need it — not just at the moment you create it.

    artor share list

    Useful when a designer asks for the link a week later, or you shared from a terminal session you no longer have open. Active links show their full URL; expired or turned-off links are clearly separated so you always know what's live.

  15. June 24, 2026

    feature

    manage skills from the dashboard

    Org skills and starter templates now have their own pages in Settings. You can see what's installed, sync to the latest version, and add or remove entries without opening a terminal.

    Skills are the Claude Code instructions your team shares — pinned to an exact commit so everyone builds from the same playbook. The dashboard is now the place to manage them alongside the rest of your org settings.

  16. June 24, 2026

    feature

    start new artor from a template

    Your org can now maintain a library of starter templates — pre-built project scaffolds that anyone on the team can spin up instantly.

    artor init --template <name>

    Instead of starting from a blank repo every time, templates give your team a consistent, opinionated starting point: the right config, the right structure, the right dependencies already in place. Admins push templates from any local directory; members pick one when running artor init.

  17. June 24, 2026

    feature

    publish any static site

    You can now publish any folder that has an index.html at the root — no framework, no build config, no extra steps.

    That means Figma-to-HTML exports, Framer or Webflow downloads, generated reports, or anything your AI tool spat out as plain HTML. It goes live the same way a Next.js prototype does: versioned, shareable, and accessible only to your team.