Home Assistant Automations & Scripts
Workflow
- Determine whether the request is instance-specific or general syntax.
- Discover entities and services before drafting config.
- When decisions involve templates, helpers, automation modes, entity/device IDs, or refactoring existing config, follow
home-assistant-best-practicesand its references. - Provide minimal, valid YAML/JSON or tool-driven changes.
- Validate templates and troubleshoot with traces and logs.
Tooling map (ha-mcp)
- Discover entities:
ha_get_overview,ha_search_entities - Discover services:
ha_list_services - Inspect existing:
ha_config_get_automation,ha_config_get_script,ha_deep_search - Create/update automation:
ha_config_set_automation - Create/update script:
ha_config_set_script - Blueprints:
ha_get_blueprint,ha_import_blueprint - Validate templates:
ha_eval_template - Troubleshoot runs:
ha_get_automation_traces,ha_get_logbook - History/trends:
ha_get_history,ha_get_statistics
References
All reference files are relative to the location of this SKILL.md file.
- Best practices:
home-assistant-best-practices(see itsreferences/automation-patterns.md,references/template-guidelines.md,references/helper-selection.md,references/device-control.md,references/safe-refactoring.md) - Limited templates:
references/LIMITED_TEMPLATES.md - Debug workflows:
references/DEBUG_WORKFLOWS.md - Template entities:
references/TEMPLATE_ENTITY_GUIDE.md - Additional notes:
references/REFERENCE.md