Home Assistant Automations & Scripts

Workflow

• Determine whether the request is instance-specific or general syntax.
• Discover entities and services before drafting config.
• When decisions involve templates, helpers, automation modes, entity/device IDs, or refactoring existing config, follow

  home-assistant-best-practices

  and its references.
• Provide minimal, valid YAML/JSON or tool-driven changes.
• Validate templates and troubleshoot with traces and logs.

Tooling map (ha-mcp)

• Discover entities:

  ha_get_overview

  ,

  ha_search_entities

• Discover services:

  ha_list_services

• Inspect existing:

  ha_config_get_automation

  ,

  ha_config_get_script

  ,

  ha_deep_search

• Create/update automation:

  ha_config_set_automation

• Create/update script:

  ha_config_set_script

• Blueprints:

  ha_get_blueprint

  ,

  ha_import_blueprint

• Validate templates:

  ha_eval_template

• Troubleshoot runs:

  ha_get_automation_traces

  ,

  ha_get_logbook

• History/trends:

  ha_get_history

  ,

  ha_get_statistics

References

• Best practices:

  home-assistant-best-practices

  (see its

  references/automation-patterns.md

  ,

  references/template-guidelines.md

  ,

  references/helper-selection.md

  ,

  references/device-control.md

  ,

  references/safe-refactoring.md

  )
• Limited templates:

  references/LIMITED_TEMPLATES.md

• Debug workflows:

  references/DEBUG_WORKFLOWS.md

• Template entities:

  references/TEMPLATE_ENTITY_GUIDE.md

• Additional notes:

  references/REFERENCE.md