home-assistant-automation-scripts

SKILL.md

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-practices and 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 its references/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