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/ha-house-status

Get a quick live status of the house via MCP. Shows lights, covers, climate, presence, and notable states. Use when the operator asks about house state.

From plugin
claude-code-hermit
7488 skills11 agents
Install
$ npx -y skills add gtapps/claude-code-hermit --skill ha-house-status --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/ha-house-status

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Get a quick live status of the house via MCP. Shows lights, covers, climate, presence, and notable states. Use when the operator asks about house state.

SKILL.md

ha-house-status.SKILL.md
name: ha-house-status
description: Get a quick live status of the house via MCP. Shows lights, covers, climate, presence, and notable states. Use when the operator asks about house state.
allowed-tools:
  - Bash
  - Read
  - mcp__homeassistant__GetLiveContext
  - mcp__homeassistant__GetDateTime

HA House Status

Steps

1. Call `GetDateTime` for current time and date. 2. Call `GetLiveContext` for the live house snapshot. 3. Use the stored language from OPERATOR.md (`## HA hermit` section) for all output. 4. Check `.claude-code-hermit/raw/snapshot-ha-normalized-latest.json` modification time. If older than 24 hours or missing, append a warning to the status output: > "Context snapshot is stale — run `/claude-code-homeassistant-hermit:ha-refresh-context` for accurate entity data." 5. Present a human-readable summary in the stored locale, organized by:

  • **Presence**: who is home / away
  • **Lights**: which are on
  • **Covers/Blinds**: positions
  • **Climate**: temperatures, HVAC state
  • **Media**: what's playing
  • **Security**: alarm state (read-only, never actuate)
  • **Notable**: anything unusual (devices unavailable, unexpected states)

Format

Keep the summary concise. Use bullet points. Group by area if the house has distinct areas. Highlight anything that looks unusual or worth investigating.

Ships withclaude-code-hermit

If you know Claude Tag, the idea will feel familiar: hand Claude work through a channel, such as Discord, Telegram, or your custom integration, and get results back there.

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