ha-house-status

ha-house-status is a skill for Claude Code from gtapps/hermitd. It costs 37 tokens per session (359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A live home-status checker that reads Home Assistant, a system for monitoring smart-home devices, through MCP. It reports presence, lights, blinds, climate, media, security status, and unusual conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check who is home, which devices are active, the climate state, and whether the stored home snapshot is out of date.
Why use it?
It gives the operator a quick read-only summary instead of requiring separate checks of many home devices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the hermitd-homeassistant plugin — 18 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to check who is home, which devices are active, the climate state, and whether the stored home snapshot is out of date.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gtapps/hermitd/ha-house-status
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add gtapps/hermitd --skill ha-house-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gtapps/hermitd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hermitd-homeassistant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 359 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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 $0.00037 $0.00359
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00144
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 6d ago against content hash ea01e05022c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ha-house-status scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 6d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/hermitd-homeassistant/skills/ha-house-status/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

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 .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 /hermitd-homeassistant: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.

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. 6d ago Changed · +2 lines ea01e05022c5
  2. 11d ago First seen · 32 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d64c217f40bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ha-house-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository gtapps/hermitd (79 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 359 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-02.

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