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home-assistant-best-practices
Home Assistant (HA) best practices. Load first, before answering or exploring, on any HA request.
Why this score
Popularity score: 78/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit 68f2690ff868, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onehome-assistant-best-practices homeassistant-ai/skills · Skill | 78 | ★ 897 | ≈32 always | 18d ago |
| Home Assistant YAML tonylofgren/aurora-smart-home · Skill Both about home and ha | 54 | ★ 107 | ≈29 always | 1mo ago |
| ops:home-agent Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops · Subagent Both about home | 63 | ★ 547 | ≈13 in chat | 17d ago |