Control and monitor Home Assistant smart devices using commands for lights, switches, covers, climate, scenes, and scripts via the HA API.
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What Homeassistant can do for your AI workflow
Home assistant smart devices directly from your Claude conversation
Works across Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw β install once, use everywhere
One-command installation β no complex setup required
Combine with other skills to build powerful multi-step AI workflows
Try these prompts with your AI agent after installing Homeassistant
Help me get started with Homeassistant
Explains what Homeassistant does, walks through the setup, and runs a quick demo based on your current project
Use Homeassistant to control and monitor Home Assistant smart devices using commands for...
Invokes Homeassistant with the right parameters and returns the result directly in the conversation
What can I do with Homeassistant in my developer & devops workflow?
Lists the top use cases for Homeassistant, with example commands for each scenario
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Homeassistant extends your AI assistant with the ability to control and monitor Home Assistant smart devices using commands for lights, switches, covers, climate, scenes, and scripts via the HA API. Rather than leaving your conversation to handle this manually, you can ask your Claude agent directly β and it will take care of the task end-to-end, using Homeassistant as its underlying capability.
Homeassistant works across Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) β an open standard that lets AI clients share tools and skills without lock-in. Because MCP is platform-agnostic by design, you install Homeassistant once and it becomes available across all your AI clients. Whether you're working in Claude for focused sessions or Cursor for integrated workflows, the skill behaves consistently.
Homeassistant installs like any other MCP skill: drop the folder into `~/.claude/skills/glitch-homeassistant/` for global access, or `.claude/skills/glitch-homeassistant/` to keep it scoped to one project. After a quick restart of Claude, you can trigger it explicitly with `/glitch-homeassistant`, or let the AI decide when it's the right tool for your request.
Homeassistant has 732 installs and is part of the growing Developer & DevOps skill ecosystem on DiscoverAISkills. The source code is open on GitHub β you can inspect it, contribute fixes, or fork it to adapt the skill for your specific setup. Like all skills on DiscoverAISkills, it is free to install and use. The broader AI skills ecosystem continues to expand as developers contribute new capabilities across categories like developer tools, data analysis, writing, automation, and more.
Place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/glitch-homeassistant/ for personal use (all projects), or .claude/skills/glitch-homeassistant/ for project-specific use. Restart your AI client, then invoke with /glitch-homeassistant or let the AI discover it automatically.
Homeassistant supports Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw. It integrates seamlessly with these AI platforms to extend their capabilities.
Homeassistant is free to install. Check the repository for licensing information.
Control and monitor Home Assistant smart devices using commands for lights, switches, covers, climate, scenes, and scripts via the HA API.
Homeassistant Skill
Control Home Assistant devices and automations via REST API. 25 entity domains including lights, climate, locks, presence, weather, calendars, notifications, scripts, and more. Use when the user asks about their smart home, devices, or automations.
Home Assistant CLI
Advanced Home Assistant control using the official hass-cli tool. Features auto-completion, event monitoring, history queries, and rich output formatting. Alternative to the curl-based homeassistant skill - choose this if you want a more interactive CLI experience with better discovery and formatting.
Home Assistant Assist
Control Home Assistant smart home devices using the Assist (Conversation) API. Use this skill when the user wants to control smart home entities - lights, sw...
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install glitch-homeassistantOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install glitch-homeassistantβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/glitch-homeassistant/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.
Automate my developer & devops tasks using Homeassistant
Identifies repetitive steps in your workflow and sets up Homeassistant to handle them automatically
Homeassistant is categorized under Developer & DevOps. These skills help AI agents perform specialized tasks in this domain.