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