Skill

home-assistant-best-practices

home-assistant-best-practices — a Claude Code skill from homeassistant-ai/skills

Features

✓Home Assistant best practices for AI agents
✓Portable Markdown knowledge pack format
✓Native HA constructs and automation patterns
✓Safe refactoring and device control guidelines
✓Dashboard configuration and card styling
✓Visit GitHub for more details and installation instructions

Installation Guide

Agent Skills installer

Requires Node.js 18+.

bash

npx skills add homeassistant-ai/skills

Works with AI coding agents that support the Agent Skills standard: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, VS Code, Gemini CLI, and others. To update: npx skills update

Claude Code plugin

Run each command separately inside Claude Code:

text

/plugin marketplace add homeassistant-ai/skills

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/plugin install home-assistant-skills@homeassistant-ai-skills

Run /reload-plugins or restart Claude Code for the skill to take effect.

Claude Desktop / claude.ai

Download or clone this repository

Zip the skill folder: cd skills && zip -r home-assistant-best-practices.zip home-assistant-best-practices/

Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill → select the .zip file