Use Case
Home Assistant is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Control Home Assistant smart home devices, run automations, and receive webhook events. Use when controlling lights, switches, climate, scenes, scripts, or any HA entity. Supports bidirectional communication via REST API (outbound) and webhooks (inbound triggers from HA automations). This guide walks you through installing Home Assistant, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Home Assistant: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install home-assistant
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to developer & devops to trigger Home Assistant
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Home Assistant with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Home Assistant
Help me get started with Home Assistant
What can Home Assistant do for my developer & devops workflow?
Show me an example of using Home Assistant
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install home-assistantOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install home-assistantβ 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/home-assistant/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.