claude-skill-homeassistant

Why we included this project

Home Assistant users who already work inside Claude Code know the gap this fills: a model can read entity state and call services, but it rarely knows the careful procedure for editing configuration without breaking the instance. Rather than generic automation tips, the skill encodes that operational discipline. It writes current (2024.10+) automation YAML instead of the deprecated syntax LLMs tend to emit, picks reload over restart based on what changed, and validates configs before applying them so a bad edit never takes the system down. Its verification pass triggers automations for real and reads logs and traces afterward, which catches the `automation.trigger`-skips-conditions gotcha that produces silent false passes. It also reaches remote instances over SSH and hass-cli and ships Jinja2 template patterns for touch-friendly Lovelace dashboards, making routine configuration and testing safer to hand to an agent that carries this procedure with it.