skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from homeassistant-ai/skills. It costs 1,944 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for creating and maintaining CLAUDE.md files, which give coding agents project-specific guidance. They cover repository layout, skill files, plugin metadata, and evaluation cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when authoring agent skills, arranging plugin repositories, or checking how CLAUDE.md guidance and evaluation files should be structured.
Why use it?
They help keep agent instructions in the expected locations and formats, avoiding setup mistakes that can make tests or evaluations silently miss files.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is homeassistant-ai/skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to homeassistant-ai/skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/homeassistant-ai/skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01944 $0.01944
Opus 5 $0.00972 $0.00972
Sonnet 5 $0.00389 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00194 $0.00194

Measured 9d ago against content hash f40719162035, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- UI renames, terminology, and default changes appear only in release blog posts, not core source: `source/_posts/<date>-release-<version>.markdown` in the docs repo (e.g. `2026-08-05-release-20268.markdown`). Use `gh ap
CLAUDE.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repo Layout

Eval cases live in a top-level evals/<case>/case.yaml, not under skills/. claude plugin eval rejects any eval directory whose first segment names a loaded component directory (commands, skills, agents, hooks, themes, output-styles, monitors, workflows, bin) — and rejects it softly: it warns, falls back to the default evals/, and finds nothing, so cases in the wrong place silently never run. evals/ at the plugin root is the default and needs no experimental.evals key.

SKILL.md is in context on every trigger; references/ load only when read. That is why SKILL.md body size is capped and why domain-niche content belongs in a reference file behind a single routing row, not in the always-loaded table.

Skill Format

Every skill is a SKILL.md with name/description frontmatter. Full authoring constraints: CONTRIBUTING.md. The one CI cannot catch:

  • metadata.version must be "0" on new skills — do not edit manually; CI assigns the real version on merge and syncs it into .claude-plugin/plugin.json (.version) and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (.metadata.version) — three files, one source of truth
  • description is capped at 1024 chars and runs close to it — measure the parsed length before adding trigger/symptom bullets: uvx --from skills-ref agentskills read-properties skills/<skill-name> | jq '.description | length'

Skill Authoring Principles

The wording of these content-quality principles is mirrored in CONTRIBUTING.md (contributors); each file also carries guidance the other omits. When you change a shared principle, change both — they have drifted before.

  • Context window conservation — keep what is HA-specific, cut general programming advice; the test is the content itself, not whether a given model already knows it (skills run on frontier and small local models alike)
  • Conciseness — provide patterns and quick-reference tables, not tutorials
  • Consistent terminology — one term per concept throughout a skill; contrasting code blocks are # WRONG — why / # RIGHT — why (emoji only in table status columns). A renamed HA term uses the new name and cites the old one with its version ("named Developer Tools before 2026.8") — never a bare swap, since readers on older releases still see the old label
  • Symptom-based triggering — the description frontmatter should describe observable agent behaviors that signal the skill is needed
  • No tool names — reference HA REST APIs and concepts, never specific MCP tool names (e.g. ha_rename_entity); tool names vary by agent setup

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 100 lines · 1,944 tokens per session scan A f40719162035

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository homeassistant-ai/skills (732 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,944 tokens to every session, about $0.0097 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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