Use Case
Home Assistant CLI is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. 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. This guide walks you through installing Home Assistant CLI, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Home Assistant CLI: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install homeassistant-cli
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to developer & devops to trigger Home Assistant CLI
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Home Assistant CLI with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Home Assistant CLI
Help me get started with Home Assistant CLI
What can Home Assistant CLI do for my developer & devops workflow?
Show me an example of using Home Assistant CLI
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install homeassistant-cliOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install homeassistant-cliβ 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/homeassistant-cli/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.