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