home-assistant-entities-services
All reference files are relative to the location of this SKILL.md file.
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Installation Guide
How to use home-assistant-entities-services on Cursor
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Prerequisites
Before installing skills in Cursor, ensure your development environment meets these requirements:
- ›Cursor installed and configured on your machine
- ›Node.js 16+ with npm — verify with
node --version - ›Active project directory where you want to add
home-assistant-entities-services
Run the install command
Execute the skills CLI command in your project's root directory to begin installation:
Fetches home-assistant-entities-services from bradsjm/hassio-addons and configures it for Cursor.
Select Cursor when prompted
The CLI shows a list of agents. Use arrow keys and space to select Cursor:
Verify installation
Confirm successful installation by checking the skill directory location:
Restart Cursor to activate home-assistant-entities-services. Access via /home-assistant-entities-services in your agent's command palette.
Security Notice
We perform automated surface-level scans (Gen AI Scanner, Socket, Snyk) during installation. These checks detect common vulnerabilities but do not guarantee complete security. Always review skill source code and verify the publisher's reputation before production use.
Skills execute code in your environment. Always review source, verify the publisher, and test in isolation before production.
Documentation
Home Assistant Entities & Services
Workflow
- Discover entities and services before acting.
- Inspect current state/metadata before updates.
- When helper selection, templating, or entity renames/refactors are involved, follow
home-assistant-best-practicesreferences. - Provide minimal tool calls or YAML examples.
Tooling map (ha-mcp)
- Discover entities:
ha_get_overview,ha_search_entities,ha_get_state - Find usage/history:
ha_deep_search,ha_get_history,ha_get_statistics - Manage entities:
ha_get_entity,ha_set_entity,ha_rename_entity,ha_rename_entity_and_device - Devices:
ha_get_device,ha_update_device - Helpers:
ha_config_list_helpers,ha_config_set_helper,ha_create_config_entry_helper - Labels:
ha_config_get_label,ha_config_set_label,ha_manage_entity_labels - Groups:
ha_config_list_groups,ha_config_set_group,ha_config_remove_group - Services:
ha_list_services,ha_call_service
References
All reference files are relative to the location of this SKILL.md file.
- Best practices:
home-assistant-best-practices(see itsreferences/helper-selection.md,references/template-guidelines.md,references/device-control.md,references/safe-refactoring.md) - State object quick ref:
references/STATE_OBJECT_QUICKREF.md - Limited templates:
references/LIMITED_TEMPLATES.md
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