ha-dashboard

A Home Assistant guide for configuring Lovelace dashboards, the interface used to display smart-home controls and information.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create and edit dashboard views, cards, layouts, YAML files, and frontend themes.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common YAML, entity ID, card, view, and theme configuration errors.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,718 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00039 $0.01718
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00859
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00172

Measured 2d ago against content hash b1a391515411, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

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.

.claude/skills/ha-dashboard/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Home Assistant Dashboard Skill

Configure Lovelace dashboards, cards, views, and themes for Home Assistant.

Before You Start

This skill prevents 5 common errors and saves ~40% tokens.

Metric Without Skill With Skill
Setup Time 30+ min 10 min
Common Errors 5 0
Token Usage ~8000 ~4800

Known Issues This Skill Prevents

  1. YAML indentation errors (must use 2 spaces, never tabs)
  2. Invalid entity ID format (must be domain.entity_name)
  3. Missing required card properties (e.g., entity for button cards)
  4. Incorrect view type configuration
  5. Theme variables with wrong syntax

Quick Start

Step 1: Enable YAML Mode (Optional)

# configuration.yaml
lovelace:
  mode: yaml

Why this matters: YAML mode gives full control over dashboard configuration and enables version control.

Step 2: Create Basic Dashboard Structure

# ui-lovelace.yaml or dashboards.yaml
title: My Home
views:
  - title: Home
    path: home
    cards:
      - type: markdown
        content: Welcome to your dashboard!

Why this matters: This minimal structure validates your YAML setup before adding complexity.

Step 3: Add Cards to Views

views:
  - title: Living Room
    path: living-room
    cards:
      - type: entities
        title: Lights
        entities:
          - light.living_room
          - light.kitchen
      - type: weather-forecast
        entity: weather.home
        forecast_type: daily

Why this matters: Cards are the building blocks of dashboards - start with simple cards before complex ones.

Critical Rules

Always Do

  • Use 2-space indentation consistently
  • Use entity ID format: domain.entity_name (e.g., light.living_room)
  • Validate YAML before reloading (use an online YAML validator)
  • Define tap_action for interactive cards
  • Test on mobile devices

Never Do

  • Use tabs for indentation
  • Hardcode entity names that might change
  • Create views with 20+ cards (split into multiple views)
  • Forget forecast_type on weather-forecast cards (required since 2023)
  • Mix UI-managed and YAML-managed dashboards without understanding the mode

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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 · 271 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b1a391515411

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ha-dashboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository nodnarbnitram/claude-code-extensions (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,718 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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