Discuss your app in Chat mode
Chat mode lets you ask questions, explore ideas, and troubleshoot your app without making any changes to your code. Your conversation uses your daily chat allowance first, keeping your build credits untouched.
Anyone who wants to understand how their app works, investigate an issue, or brainstorm features before making changes.
Do this, in order
- 1
Open the mode dropdown next to the chat text box and select Chat, or press Option+P on Mac or Alt+P on Windows.
This locks the chat into a read-only discussion so your app files and database cannot be accidentally edited.
- 2
Type your question, bug report, or feature concept into the text box and send it.
Lovable reads your project files and app data to give you concrete answers and advice.
- 3
Type the @ symbol to tag specific project files or other workspace projects when you need focused answers.
Targeting specific files helps narrow down the exact area you want to discuss.
- 4
Discuss options and trade-offs until you know what you want to build.
Talking through logic first prevents unwanted rewrites and preserves your build credits.
- 5
Click Build on the confirmation card or change the dropdown to Plan or Build when you are ready to implement.
This carries over the entire discussion context so you can begin planning or coding immediately.
Paste this into your project
Can you walk me through how the main user flow currently works in this app, and point out any potential edge cases or bugs we should address before adding new features?
Words decoded
- Daily chat allowance
- A pool of included chat messages given to your workspace each day that resets at midnight UTC.
- Mode picker
- The dropdown selector right next to the chat input where you choose between Chat, Plan, and Build.
- Start building card
- A confirmation box that appears when you ask for a code change in Chat mode, asking to switch modes before using build credits.
Where people get stuck
- Expecting Chat mode to update code, edit files, or deploy your app; it is strictly read-only for your project.
- Assuming actions in connected third-party tools like Slack or Linear are blocked; Chat mode can still trigger actions in external tools if you approve them.
- Forgetting that once your daily chat allowance runs out, messages will begin consuming your workspace's build credits.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.