What is ha-dashboard?

A Python tool for managing Home Assistant Lovelace dashboards through Home Assistant's WebSocket connection. Lovelace is Home Assistant's dashboard interface.

Listing dashboards, saving a dashboard configuration to a file, deploying a file to a dashboard, and creating a new sidebar dashboard.

It handles dashboard configuration through the connection where that configuration is stored, while keeping the server address and access token separate.

ha-dashboard — Skill for Claude Code by larsboes/Axon

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 larsboes/Axon --skill ha-dashboard

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/larsboes/Axon

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install home-automation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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README.md

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Per session 167 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,314 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00167	$0.01314
Opus 5.5	$0.00067	$0.00526
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00033	$0.00263
Haiku 4.5	$0.00017	$0.00131

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 98dab0da2b9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ha-dashboard 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 2mo 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.

Packs/home-automation/skills/ha-dashboard/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ha-dashboard

Deploy and back up Home Assistant Lovelace dashboards over the WebSocket API. Lovelace dashboard config lives behind HA's WebSocket API, not its REST API, so this is a pure-Python-3 stdlib WebSocket client (socket + ssl + base64 + hashlib) — no websockets package, no pip install. Commands: list, backup, deploy, create. The non-secret HA_URL comes from the committed overlay config; the secret HA_TOKEN comes from a Bitwarden item at runtime, never hardcoded.

Setup (once)

In Home Assistant: create a long-lived access token (Profile → Security → Long-lived access tokens). That token is HA_TOKEN.
In the overlay config: set HA_URL (e.g. http://<host>:8123, or an https:// reverse-proxy URL) in <overlay>/config/home-assistant.vars (override the root with $AXON_HOME_ROOT). The WebSocket URL is derived from it.
In Bitwarden: an item home-assistant/ha (override with $HA_BW_ITEM) holding only the secret field HA_TOKEN — the same item ha-cli uses. Provision via Axon setup-secret.sh.
Point bw at the vault once: bw config server <vault-url>.

Run

Unlock Bitwarden interactively, then call (the tool reads $BW_SESSION, never the master password):

export BW_SESSION=$(bw unlock --raw)

# Inspect
scripts/ha-dashboard list                       # every named dashboard + the default
scripts/ha-dashboard list -j                     # JSON

# Back up before overwriting (default dashboard, or a named one)
scripts/ha-dashboard backup                       # -> default_dashboard_<ts>.json
scripts/ha-dashboard backup --url-path <slug>     # -> <slug>_dashboard_<ts>.json
scripts/ha-dashboard backup --url-path <slug> -o mydash.json

# Deploy a config file (JSON always; YAML only if PyYAML happens to be installed)
scripts/ha-dashboard deploy mydash.json --url-path <slug>
scripts/ha-dashboard deploy overview.json          # omit --url-path = default dashboard

# Create a new sidebar dashboard, then deploy into it
scripts/ha-dashboard create <slug> --title "My Dashboard" --icon mdi:home

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

scripts/ha-dashboard 16 KB

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.

2mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A 98dab0da2b9e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ha-dashboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository larsboes/Axon (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 1,314 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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ha-dashboard

Getting it into your agent

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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How it starts

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Setup (once)

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What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

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