deploy-external

deploy-external is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from silvioventre/lovable-skills. It costs 155 tokens per session (1,041 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision and migration guide for running a Lovable app somewhere other than Lovable Cloud, such as Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS, or Supabase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when evaluating self-hosting, exporting data, generating a Dockerfile, moving a backend, or deploying an app on another platform.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether moving is necessary and explains the operational responsibilities that come with managing hosting, databases, and other infrastructure yourself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when evaluating self-hosting, exporting data, generating a Dockerfile, moving a backend, or deploying an app on another platform.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/silvioventre/lovable-skills/deploy-external
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add silvioventre/lovable-skills --skill deploy-external
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silvioventre/lovable-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,041 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00155 $0.01041
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00521
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00104

Measured 9d ago against content hash 19c5c0e7f4e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-external scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/deployment/deploy-external/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deploy external

Running the app somewhere other than Lovable Cloud. The technical work is mostly routine; the decision and the transfer of responsibility are where this goes wrong.

First: is this the right move?

The default answer is no, and saying so is more useful than a migration plan the user did not need.

The apps are standard Vite + React projects on open technologies, synced to GitHub, with a PostgreSQL-based backend. Nothing is locked in, which means moving later costs the same as moving now — so there is no deadline forcing an early decision, and no reason to pay the operating cost before something requires it.

Move a component when a real constraint demands it:

  • Compliance or data residency tied to specific infrastructure
  • Networking the platform does not support, such as VPC peering or private endpoints
  • Organisational policy requiring self-managed or audited hosting

Do not move for a hypothetical: "we might need to scale", "we want more control", "it feels safer to own it". Each of those trades a managed platform for an operational burden that has to be carried indefinitely.

If the user has not named a constraint, ask what is driving this before planning anything. The honest answer is frequently that nothing is, and the conversation ends there — which is the correct outcome, not a failure to help.

The three parts move independently

Part Default Can move to
Code Managed in Lovable, syncs to GitHub Any Git workflow
Frontend Lovable Cloud Managed hosts, object storage plus CDN, containers, VMs
Backend and data Lovable Cloud Managed or self-hosted Supabase, or equivalent services

You do not move all three at once, and most who move anything move only the frontend. Moving frontend hosting requires no architectural change and the backend can stay where it is.

Sync to GitHub first, regardless. It costs nothing, secures code ownership, and every external hosting path builds from the repository.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 64 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 19c5c0e7f4e2

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deploy-external is a skill published in the GitHub repository silvioventre/lovable-skills (2 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 1,041 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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