Set a goal for Lovable
Typing /goal makes Lovable work continuously on a large task until it is completely finished, instead of stopping for questions. This can run for hours and uses significantly more credits than a regular message.
Anyone who wants a large, multi-part feature built completely in a single message without reviewing partial drafts along the way.
Do this, in order
- 1
Connect any outside services and add required private keys before starting.
Lovable stops early if it encounters an outside service it does not have permission to access.
- 2
Check your credit balance and adjust your spending check-in limit in account settings if you want fewer pauses.
A goal uses many credits and will pause whenever it hits your check-in limit until you approve it.
- 3
Type /goal in your message followed by a detailed description of what the finished result looks like and every specific choice you care about.
Lovable will make all undecided choices on its own instead of pausing to ask you questions.
- 4
Send the message when no other task is currently running.
If Lovable is already working on a regular message, your goal command is ignored and sent as ordinary text.
- 5
Watch the activity cards and click Continue whenever Lovable pauses for a credit check-in.
Work remains paused until you confirm you want Lovable to keep spending credits.
Paste this into your project
/goal Refactor the checkout flow to support saved payment methods, update the database schema, and add tests for the new endpoints.
Words decoded
- Build mode
- The work setting where Lovable directly writes and updates the code for your app.
- Credit check-in level
- A preset spending threshold that pauses long tasks so you can decide whether to spend more credits.
Where people get stuck
- Do not send a /goal command while Lovable is already working on a regular message, or the goal command will be ignored.
- Do not leave important design or logic details out of your prompt, because Lovable will make those decisions for you without asking.
- Do not forget to set up required connectors or private keys beforehand, or Lovable will be forced to stop early.
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.