hacs.integration_blueprint: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/ha-breaking-changes/SKILL.md

ha-breaking-changes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jpawlowski/hacs.integration_blueprint. It costs 214 tokens per session (2,362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for changing parts of a Home Assistant integration that existing users or automations may rely on, such as entity IDs, settings, actions, states, units, or supported versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when renaming or removing entities, devices, configuration data, services, states, or other public integration behavior.
Why use it?
It helps identify changes that could break dashboards, scripts, automations, statistics, or installed configurations, and guides the choice between a clean break and a migration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is jpawlowski/hacs.integration_blueprint's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on hacs.integration_blueprint 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 hacs.integration_blueprint configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jpawlowski/hacs.integration_blueprint. 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/jpawlowski/hacs.integration_blueprint/main/.agents/skills/ha-breaking-changes/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpawlowski/hacs.integration_blueprint

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 214 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,362 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 182
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00214 $0.02362
Opus 5 $0.00107 $0.01181
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00236

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8f62bdca0cc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ha-breaking-changes 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 10d 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.

.agents/skills/ha-breaking-changes/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Breaking changes

Users have automations, dashboards, scripts, and long-term statistics wired to this integration's entity IDs, unique IDs, states, and action names. Breaking any of them is a real cost to real people, and the integration cannot see who it broke.

Which side of 1.0.0 is this?

Everything below assumes a released, stable integration. Before 1.0.0 the trade-off is genuinely different, and applying the post-1.0 rules early is its own kind of damage: compatibility code accumulates in a codebase whose shape is not settled yet, which is exactly what makes reaching a stable 1.0.0 harder.

Before 1.0.0:

  • A breaking change is an acceptable outcome, and usually the right one. Getting the shape right beats preserving a shape you already regret.
  • What still needs asking is whether to build the migration — not whether to break. Do not write async_migrate_entry, rewrite registry entries, or bump VERSION / MINOR_VERSION on your own initiative. Put the choice to the developer: break cleanly now, or carry the migration.
  • Recommend. "The cleanest fix is to rename the key and let existing test entries be recreated; a migration would cost ~40 lines we would then maintain" is the useful form. Not "shall I migrate?"
  • Do not record each one in DECISIONS.md. That log is for architecture. A key renamed before the first stable release is not an architectural decision, and a log padded with them is one nobody reads.
  • Keep the BREAKING CHANGE: footer anyway. It costs one line, and it is the whole price of this freedom: HACS installs 0.x versions too, and the people testing early deserve a changelog entry rather than a silent surprise. Release-please turns it into a minor bump pre-1.0 (ha-release), so it is cheap.

This is also the window in which unique IDs stop being free. {entry_id}_{key} is the documented last resort — if the device exposes a serial or MAC, switch to it before 1.0.0, because afterwards it is a migration (blueprint.entities).

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 10d ago First seen · 187 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A 8f62bdca0cc6

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ha-breaking-changes is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpawlowski/hacs.integration_blueprint (49 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 214 tokens to every session and 2,362 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.