ha-api

A guide for connecting code to Home Assistant, a home-automation platform, through its REST and WebSocket interfaces. It covers authentication, device states, service calls, and live event updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building integrations that read or change Home Assistant entities, call services, subscribe to events, or authenticate API requests.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common mistakes with access tokens, message formats, service addresses, connection setup, and error responses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions/ha-api
Any agent
npx skills add nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions --skill ha-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,756 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00062 $0.05756
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.02878
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00576

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2deb0892389c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ha-api 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 2d 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.

curl -X GET "${HA_URL}/api/states" \
.claude/skills/ha-api/SKILL.md · 880 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 880 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Home Assistant API Integration

Master Home Assistant's REST and WebSocket APIs for external integration, state management, and real-time communication.

⚠️ BEFORE YOU START

This skill prevents 5 common API integration errors and saves ~30% token overhead.

Aspect Details
Common Errors Prevented 5+ (auth, WebSocket lifecycle, state format, error handling)
Token Savings ~30% vs. manual API discovery
Setup Time 2-5 minutes vs. 15-20 minutes manual

Known Issues This Skill Prevents

  1. Incorrect authentication headers - Bearer tokens must be prefixed with "Bearer " in Authorization header
  2. WebSocket lifecycle management - Missing auth_required handling or improper state subscription
  3. State format mismatches - Confusing state vs. attributes; incorrect JSON payload structure
  4. Error response handling - Not distinguishing between 4xx client errors and 5xx server errors
  5. Service call domain/service mismatch - Incorrect routing to service endpoints

Quick Start

Step 1: Authentication Setup

# In Home Assistant UI:
# Settings → My Home → Create Long-Lived Access Token
# Store token securely (never commit to git)

export HA_TOKEN="eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9..."
export HA_URL="http://192.168.1.100:8123"

Why this matters: All API requests require Bearer token authentication. Creating a dedicated token for external apps allows you to revoke access without changing your password.

Step 2: Test REST API Connectivity

# Get all entity states
curl -X GET "${HA_URL}/api/states" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${HA_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Why this matters: Verifies your Home Assistant instance is accessible and your token is valid before building complex integrations.

Step 3: Choose API Type

  • REST API: For one-time requests, state queries, service calls (HTTP polling)
  • WebSocket API: For real-time events, continuous subscriptions, lower latency (~50ms vs. seconds)

Read the full file on GitHub · 880 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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 880 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 2deb0892389c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ha-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 5,756 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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