home-assistant/core

:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

About the project

Home Assistant is open-source home automation software that lets people control devices and actions locally through a modular system. It is used by home-automation enthusiasts and DIY users, often on a Raspberry Pi or local server; the catalogue entries support operating or developing its integrations and codebase.

Latest release 2026.10.4 · 24 Oct 2026

13 files for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex and OpenCode: raise-pull-request, bump-dependency, ha-integration-knowledge, ha-merge-queue and 9 more — 3,906 tokens loaded in every session.

Open on GitHub home-assistant.io

Instructions

core copilot-instructions.md .github/copilot-instructions.md C 2,719 tok
core AGENTS.md AGENTS.md C 1,184 tok
core CLAUDE.md CLAUDE.md A 3 tok

Skills

bump-dependency .claude/skills/bump-dependency/SKILL.md A 42 tok
ha-integration-knowledge .claude/skills/ha-integration-knowledge/SKILL.md A 38 tok
ha-merge-queue .claude/skills/ha-merge-queue/SKILL.md A 72 tok
ha-pr-comment-audit .claude/skills/ha-pr-comment-audit/SKILL.md A 53 tok
ha-pr-reviewer .claude/skills/ha-pr-reviewer/SKILL.md A 32 tok
ha-quality-scale-verify .claude/skills/ha-quality-scale-verify/SKILL.md A 84 tok
ha-review .claude/skills/ha-review/SKILL.md A 50 tok
custom-integration-sources .claude/skills/custom-integration-sources/SKILL.md A 73 tok

Agents

raise-pull-request .claude/agents/raise-pull-request.md A 44 tok
custom-integration-reader .claude/agents/custom-integration-reader.md A 87 tok

These files are home-assistant/core's own configuration — they tell Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex and OpenCode how to work on this repository, so they are not mods to install elsewhere. Copy one as a starting point and replace the parts that are about this project.