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Home Assistant Builder (hab)

Teaches Claude to drive the `hab` CLI to inspect, create, update and operate Home Assistant safely from the terminal.

AutomationIntermediate★ 164⑂ 22AI score 8/10Last updated: Sep 15, 2026

What it does

  • Routes every task to the right entry command in the Home Assistant Builder (hab) CLI: hab guide <topic> plus hab schema <command> --json instead of guessing flags.
  • Standardizes machine parsing with --json envelopes, telling you which fields to check (success, data, error.details.suggested_fix, warnings, verification_commands).
  • Enforces a mutation safety loop: read schema → inventory current state → preview with --plan/--dry-run → explicit user confirmation → run verification commands.
  • Flags destructive operations (system restart, backup restore/delete, network/Thread changes, integration reload, ESPHome upload/erase-flash, --force deletes) as confirmation-required.
  • Covers entities, automations, scripts, scenes, Lovelace dashboards, helpers, calendar/to-do, backups and ESPHome (including NDJSON streaming output).

Who it's for

  • Home Assistant owners who prefer managing config from a terminal or via an AI assistant.
  • Power users authoring or refactoring lots of automation/dashboard YAML and JSON.
  • ESPHome tinkerers who repeatedly validate, build and flash devices.

Example uses

  1. "Turn on the kitchen light when motion is detected" → hab guide automation, hab schema automation create --json, then create with --dry-run before committing.
  2. "Show everything related to light.kitchen" → read-only hab entity get light.kitchen --device --related and hab search related entity light.kitchen.
  3. "Clean up old backups" → hab backup list, preview with hab backup delete <id> --plan, delete only after you approve.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the skills/hass-builder folder from the GitHub repo aahl/skills into my ~/.claude/skills/hass-builder/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/aahl/skills.git /tmp/aahl-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/aahl-skills/skills/hass-builder ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/aahl/skills.git /tmp/aahl-skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r /tmp/aahl-skills/skills/hass-builder ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Make the wrapper executable: chmod +x ~/.claude/skills/hass-builder/scripts/hab.sh
  6. Have your Home Assistant URL and a Long-Lived Access Token ready, then run scripts/hab.sh guide auth to configure authentication.
  7. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "use hab to list all my light entities" — the skill triggers automatically.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT