Agent skill · software engineering · mvanhorn
pp-home-assistant
Safe household actions, offline memory, and evidence-backed answers on top of the full Home Assistant control surface. Trigger phrases: `turn the apartment into movie-night mode`, `which windows are open`, `why did my automation fail`, `check my Home Assistant health`, `use Home Assistant`, `run Home Assistant`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds executable commands for safe household actions and diagnostics in Home Assistant that aren't available in public documentation.
What it needs
Requires home-assistant-pp-cli installed locally. About 11k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
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How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-home-assistant