# Build Home Assistant YAML Faster

Home Assistant YAML is easy to break when automations, secrets, and dashboards grow. This skill provides patterns, examples, and local validators for safer configuration work.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add esjavadex/homeassistant-config
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: esjavadex-homeassistant-config
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 051ce2973443ba015c218d0851ca5bb1c5e3963d184fa8060747fb3a42019254
- Author: ESJavadex
- GitHub username: ESJavadex
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/ESJavadex/claude-homeassistant-plugins/tree/main/homeassistant-config/skills/homeassistant-config
- Ref: a06681402992ceae98ba04d54cfd4ab004862696
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: network, env\_access, external\_commands, filesystem
- Quality score: 81
- Quality tier: silver
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/esjavadex-homeassistant-config
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/esjavadex-homeassistant-config/manifest

## Capabilities

- Drafts Home Assistant automation, script, scene, template, and blueprint YAML.
- Explains 2024\+ Home Assistant syntax for triggers, actions, and conditions.
- Provides Lovelace dashboard and custom card examples.
- Runs local validators for YAML syntax, Lovelace cards, and duplicate automations.
- Suggests file organization patterns and secrets management practices.
- Troubleshoots common entity, service, template, and indentation errors.

## Use Cases

- Create Reliable Automations: Generate motion lighting, presence, climate, and notification automations using current YAML structure.
- Validate Configuration Changes: Check YAML files, dashboard cards, duplicate rules, and common Home Assistant mistakes before reloading.
- Standardize Team Configurations: Use examples and best practices to organize files, secrets, dashboards, and reusable blueprints.

## Prompt Templates

### Create a Basic Automation

```
Create a Home Assistant automation for this goal: [goal]. Use these entities: [entities]. Explain what I should replace.
```

### Fix YAML Validation Errors

```
Review this Home Assistant YAML error and file excerpt. Identify the likely cause and provide a corrected version.
```

### Design a Lovelace View

```
Build a Lovelace dashboard view for [room or workflow]. Include cards for these entities: [entity list].
```

### Refactor Automations Into Blueprints

```
Analyze these related Home Assistant automations. Propose a reusable blueprint, required inputs, and migration steps.
```

## Limitations

- It does not connect to a running Home Assistant server.
- Generated YAML must be reviewed with your real entity IDs.
- Local validators require Python and PyYAML installed in the environment.
- It cannot confirm third-party custom cards are installed in your instance.

## Best Practices

- Validate YAML locally before restarting or reloading Home Assistant.
- Keep real passwords, tokens, coordinates, and database files out of version control.
- Test templates, entity IDs, and services in Home Assistant Developer Tools first.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not paste real secrets into prompts, examples, repositories, or shared logs.
- Do not apply generated automations without checking entity names and service support.
- Do not mix old and new Home Assistant automation syntax in the same rule.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-06T15:33:56.492\+00:00
- Summary: AI review found the static findings to be false positives from Home Assistant examples, Markdown syntax, and local validation scripts. No prompt injection, credential exfiltration, unauthorized network access, or malicious command execution was found in the reviewed files.

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