Missing Artifacts menu from ContextSidebar.vue

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Bug summary

The artifacts menu has vanished from the sidebar, but the route is available upon navigating to /artifacts manually.

To fix this, add an item in p-context-sidebar, located in ContextSidebar.vue:
<p-context-nav-item title="Artifacts" :to="routes.artifacts()" />

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Versions (prefect version output)

3.0.0rc10

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[aaazzam]

👋 @matter1-git! This was a deliberate choice from #13226.

The goal here is to reduce the # of forks at the highest level of the app. While artifacts can be created and exist outside the context of flows, they rarely are and so we want the UI to better reflect the relationship that artifacts do have - namely with flow runs and task runs. After these changes, artifacts are still available in the UI through the flow run graph on the flow run page. Their individual pages are also still available and exposed throughout the app but just not via top-level site navigations.

While this choice was intentional, genuinely open to feedback if you're using artifacts in a way that this choice undermines. I want to hear from others too and to that end, I'm going to convert this to a discussion.

[mattinwood]

We plan to use artifacts to elevate certain key data about deployments and runs for non-technical users, and would like to have a quick way to link to the artifacts page (currently accessible through site search) as a "one stop shop" for navigating that information. This would allow our users to leverage artifact descriptions to find the correct information rather than sifting through the larger list of deployments, flows, and runs.