home-assistant-best-practices
Guidelines for Home Assistant automations, prioritizing native constructs over templates for reliability.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/skills --skill home-assistant-best-practicesStats
| Total installs | 1,336 |
| Weekly installs | 1.3K |
| GitHub stars | 197 |
| First seen | Jan 31, 2026 |
| Source | @homeassistant-ai/skills |
Summary
- Prioritizes built-in conditions, triggers, and helpers over Jinja2 templates; includes decision workflow for choosing between native state conditions, numeric_state, time triggers, and template helpers
- Covers automation modes (single, restart, queued, parallel) with scenarios, entity_id vs device_id usage, and Zigbee button/remote patterns for ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT
- Provides safe refactoring workflow for entity renames, helper replacements, and trigger restructuring to prevent silent breakage across dashboards and scripts
- Documents anti-patterns (template conditions, wait_template polling, device_id brittleness) with native alternatives and reasoning
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FAQ
- How many installs does home-assistant-best-practices have?
- home-assistant-best-practices has 1,336 total installs and 1.3K installs this week.
- Where is home-assistant-best-practices hosted?
- home-assistant-best-practices is published by @homeassistant-ai/skills at https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/skills.
- How many GitHub stars does home-assistant-best-practices have?
- home-assistant-best-practices has 197 GitHub stars.
- When was home-assistant-best-practices first indexed?
- OrangeBot.AI first indexed home-assistant-best-practices on Jan 31, 2026.
- How do I install home-assistant-best-practices?
- Run: npx skills add https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/skills --skill home-assistant-best-practices