Home Assistant Entities & Services

Workflow

• Discover entities and services before acting.

• Inspect current state/metadata before updates.

• When helper selection, templating, or entity renames/refactors are involved, follow home-assistant-best-practices references.

• Provide minimal tool calls or YAML examples.

Tooling map (ha-mcp)

• Discover entities: ha_get_overview , ha_search_entities , ha_get_state

• Find usage/history: ha_deep_search , ha_get_history , ha_get_statistics

• Manage entities: ha_get_entity , ha_set_entity , ha_rename_entity , ha_rename_entity_and_device

• Devices: ha_get_device , ha_update_device

• Helpers: ha_config_list_helpers , ha_config_set_helper , ha_create_config_entry_helper

• Labels: ha_config_get_label , ha_config_set_label , ha_manage_entity_labels

• Groups: ha_config_list_groups , ha_config_set_group , ha_config_remove_group

• Services: ha_list_services , ha_call_service

References

All reference files are relative to the location of this SKILL.md file.

• Best practices: home-assistant-best-practices (see its references/helper-selection.md , references/template-guidelines.md , references/device-control.md , references/safe-refactoring.md )

• State object quick ref: references/STATE_OBJECT_QUICKREF.md

• Limited templates: references/LIMITED_TEMPLATES.md