Home Assistant YAML

tonylofgren/home assistant yaml

> Home Assistant YAML configuration and automation. The most common skill for general HA questions. Covers automations, blueprints, scripts, scenes, template sensors, Lovelace dashboards, Mushroom cards, packages, helpers, presence detection, voice Assist, calendar automation, Jinja2 templates, notification patterns, energy monitoring, Matter devices, automation debugging and traces, dashboard sections view, and trigger-based template entities.

400k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/tonylofgren/aurora-smart-home --skill Home Assistant YAML

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take tonylofgren/home assistant yaml from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.