home-assistant-best-practices — Skills

What it does

List of individual sensor entities in a trigger → one purpose-specific trigger with an area/floor/label target:

{{ states('x') | float > 25 }} → numericstate condition with above: 25

{{ isstate('x', 'on') and isstate('y', 'on') }} → condition: and with state conditions

{{ now().hour >= 9 }} → condition: time with after: "09:00:00"

Sum/average multiple sensors → minmax integration

Binary any-on/all-on logic → group helper

Rate of change → derivative integration

Requirements & configuration

| template: sensor/binary sensor in YAML | Template Helper (UI or config flow API) | Requires file edit and config reload; harder to manage | references/template-guidelines.md |

Read these when you need detailed information:

| references/examples.yaml | Need compound examples combining multiple best practices | — |

home assistant best practices

Source

Repository: https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/skills

home-assistant-best-practices FAQ

What does the home-assistant-best-practices skill do?

> Best practices for HA automations, helpers, scripts, controls, and dashboards. List of individual sensor entities in a trigger → one purpose-specific trigger with an area/floor/label target: {{ states('x') | float > 25 }} → numericstate condition with above: 25

What does home-assistant-best-practices require?

How do I install home-assistant-best-practices?

Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/skills --skill home-assistant-best-practices --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/homeassistant-ai/skills.

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Let people know it's listed here — add the badge (live metrics, light/dark aware) or a plain link to your README or docs.

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npx agentictools info skills/homeassistant-ai-skills-home-assistant-best-practices

The second line is the CLI lookup for this page — handy in READMEs and docs.