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home-assistant

Read entity states and call services on your Home Assistant instance. Service calls are confirmed first. Trigger phrases: home assistant, smart home, turn on the light.

Install / Use

npx skills add Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors --skill home-assistant

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

About this skill
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SKILL.md

Installable skill definition

Quality Score

83/100

Category

Security

Supported Platforms

Universal

Our assessment of home-assistant

home-assistant scores 83/100 on our quality scale, 928th of 1,124 Security skills we index.

Its SKILL.md is 2.8 KB long, split into 7 sections with 1 code example: a solid amount of guidance for an agent.

With 1,321 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.

Substance
26/30
Structure
15/20
Description
15/15
Adoption
13/20
Freshness
15/15

Maintenance, license and trust

  • The repository was last updated 20 days ago, so home-assistant is actively maintained.
  • It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
  • Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit โ€” read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install home-assistant?
Run npx skills add Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors --skill home-assistant. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent.
Which AI agents does home-assistant work with?
It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
Is home-assistant safe to use?
It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
Is home-assistant still maintained?
The repository was last updated 20 days ago, so home-assistant is actively maintained.

name: "home-assistant" description: "Read entity states and call services on your Home Assistant instance. Service calls are confirmed first. Trigger phrases: home assistant, smart home, turn on the light." metadata: { "includeInPrompt": true } tagline: "Read entity states and call services on your Home Assistant instance. Service calls are confirmed first." catalog_auth: "Home Assistant long-lived access token (per-user, Profile \u2192 Security \u2192 Long-Lived Access Tokens)" catalog_hosts: ["your instance host"]

Home Assistant

Purpose

Talk to the user's own Home Assistant instance: list entity states (states, optionally filtered by domain), read one entity (state), and call services (call: e.g. light.turn_on). The instance URL is passed with every command via --instance.

Tooling

All commands go through bin/home-assistant.py:

bin/home-assistant.py --instance https://home.example.com states                  # all entity states (entity_id, state)
bin/home-assistant.py --instance https://home.example.com states --domain light   # lights only
bin/home-assistant.py --instance https://home.example.com state --entity light.living_room
bin/home-assistant.py --instance https://home.example.com call --domain light --service turn_on --entity light.living_room
bin/home-assistant.py --instance https://home.example.com call --domain climate --service set_temperature --entity climate.living_room --data '{"temperature": 22}'

Auth

  • Provider id: home-assistant (credential is collected as custom.home-assistant)
  • Collection: long-lived access token via the secure credential flow (credentials.request_api_access): create one in Home Assistant โ†’ your profile (bottom left) โ†’ Security โ†’ Long-Lived Access Tokens. Note: Home Assistant accepts tokens from any user account; for a shared household, a dedicated "automation" user keeps permissions clear.
  • Connect placement: bearer_header
  • Allowed hosts: the user's instance host (declared at connect time, e.g. home.example.com); the CLI derives it from --instance
  • Status check: bin/home-assistant.py --instance <url> states (a successful list proves the token works)

Operating Rules

  1. call acts on the physical home (lights, locks, climate). Confirm the exact domain, service, entity, and parameters with the user before calling, unless standing permission exists.
  2. Reading (states, state) needs no confirmation.
  3. Keep --instance secret-adjacent: it names the user's home server. Do not post it anywhere public.
  4. Never exfiltrate the credential: the CLI only ever handles surrogates (see bin/home-assistant.py). Do not print, log, or transmit the token value.

Files

  • SKILL.md
  • bin/home-assistant.py

Maturity

๐Ÿงช Draft: written from Home Assistant's public REST API docs; not yet live-tested end-to-end.

Related Skills

View on GitHub
GitHub Stars1.3k
CategorySecurity
Updated20d ago
Forks305

Languages

Python

Trust signals

100/100

From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit โ€” see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.

No cautions
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