Chat with Lovable across your workspace
Chats lets you brainstorm, query tools, and draft ideas outside any specific project. When you decide to build something, you can hand off the work directly from the chat to a project.
Anyone who wants to plan ideas, compare multiple apps, or run cross-tool tasks before starting a build.
Do this, in order
- 1
Go to lovable.dev/chats or select Chat in the dashboard prompt box to open a new chat.
It keeps your planning conversation separate from your app's codebase.
- 2
Type '@' or click '+' next to the prompt box to attach existing projects, tools, uploaded files, or other chats as context.
This allows Lovable to reference your files and apps when answering questions.
- 3
Discuss your idea, add constraints, or say 'Do not build anything yet' while exploring directions.
This ensures the conversation uses your free daily chat allowance rather than build credits.
- 4
When you are ready, instruct Lovable to build the app or edit an existing project, then confirm the approval card.
Lovable does not edit project code until you approve the handoff, which consumes build credits.
Paste this into your project
Compare three directions for a booking app for my studio and recommend one. Do not build anything yet.
Words decoded
- Daily chat allowance
- A pool of free chat messages provided each day to your workspace that resets daily.
- Build credits
- Credits consumed only when Lovable actually modifies or generates project code and media.
- MCP server
- A standard way to connect external software tools directly into Lovable's chat.
Where people get stuck
- Saying 'Always allow' on a project handoff permanently skips future approval cards for automated builds across all chats.
- Voice conversations require clicking on approval cards on screen; speaking 'yes' or approving aloud does not confirm an action.
- Generating PDFs, Word documents, slide decks, or images uses build credits instead of the free chat allowance.
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.