About home-assistant-entities-services
A skill for users inspecting or managing Home Assistant entities, devices, helpers, and services. It emphasizes discovering objects and checking their current state before updates or service calls.
Key features
- 01Discover entities and services
- 02Inspect state and metadata
- 03Query history and statistics
- 04Manage entities and devices
- 05Configure helpers, labels, and groups
Use cases
- 01Find an entity and inspect its current state
- 02Update entity or device details
- 03Create helpers or manage entity groups
- 04Review history and call services
MCP support
The skill uses ha-mcp tools to discover and inspect Home Assistant entities, devices, and services, and to make configuration changes or call services.
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ bradsjm/ hassio-addons --skill home-assistant-entities-servicesAfter installing, type/home-assistant-entities-servicesin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesreferences/LIMITED_TEMPLATES.mdreferences/STATE_OBJECT_QUICKREF.md
Details
From the project READMEHome 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-practicesreferences. - 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 itsreferences/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
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