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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:

Weekly Installs

171

Repository

bradsjm/hassio-addons

GitHub Stars

38

First Seen

Feb 3, 2026

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