What Are Lovable Skills?

Lovable Skills are reusable feature packages you can drop into any Lovable project with a single command. Think of them as composable building blocks: each skill bundles the UI, the server functions, the database migrations and the docs needed to ship a specific feature — auth, payments, AI chat, design tokens — without writing the integration yourself.

Why Lovable Skills exist

Most web apps reinvent the same handful of features over and over: a sign-in flow, a Stripe checkout, a settings page, a transactional email pipeline. Lovable Skills package those proven implementations so a new project can adopt them in minutes instead of days.

Every skill on lovableskills.com is:

• Self-contained. A skill ships its own routes, migrations and types.
• Idiomatic. It uses Lovable Cloud, TanStack Start and the platform conventions.
• Reviewable. You can read the full source before installing.

How a Lovable Skill is structured

A typical skill looks like this:

my-skill/
├── SKILL.md            # description and install steps
├── migrations/         # schema changes
├── routes/             # new pages or API endpoints
├── components/         # reusable UI
└── server/             # server functions

The SKILL.md is the entry point — it tells the Lovable agent (and you) what the skill does, what it depends on, and what to do after install.

Installing your first Lovable Skill

1. Browse the skills catalog and pick one that matches what you need.
2. Copy the lovable add <skill-slug> command from the skill page.
3. Paste it into a Lovable chat or run it from your terminal.
4. The agent applies the migrations, creates the files and walks you through any required secrets.

For example, to add passwordless sign-in:

lovable add auth-magic-link

The agent will enable Lovable Cloud, create the subscribers and auth_sessions tables, scaffold /auth and /auth/callback, and configure Resend if you have a domain connected.

Lovable Skills vs Claude Skills

Both are bundles of procedural knowledge, but they target different runtimes. A Claude Skill teaches Claude how to do something inside a conversation. A Lovable Skill teaches the Lovable builder agent how to extend a real web app. Many skills exist in both formats — see our Claude Skills vs MCP post for the deeper comparison.

Next steps

• Browse the full catalog — 2000+ skills are indexed.
• Read How to create a Claude Skill if you want to publish one.
• Check the Best Auth skills round-up for production-ready sign-in.