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