ha-esphome-config-augment

ha-esphome-config-augment is a skill for Claude Code from nolte/claude-home-assistant. It costs 209 tokens per session (1,593 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A focused editor for existing ESPHome YAML device configurations. ESPHome is a system for defining smart-home devices in text; this skill adds one sensor, actuator, bus connection, external component, or shared-package binding to one device file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a named sensor or actuator, configure an I2C bus or multiplexer channel, include a locally used external component, or add a shared-package binding to an existing ESPHome device.
Why use it?
It limits each change to one addition and checks the existing device and shared settings first, reducing the risk of attaching a component to the wrong hardware bus or breaking the configuration.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-home-assistant plugin — 45 skills, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to add a named sensor or actuator, configure an I2C bus or multiplexer channel, include a locally used external component, or add a shared-package binding to an existing ESPHome device.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nolte/claude-home-assistant/ha-esphome-config-augment
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nolte/claude-home-assistant --skill ha-esphome-config-augment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nolte/claude-home-assistant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-home-assistant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 11 agents.

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Per session 209 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,593 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 $0.00209 $0.01593
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00159

Measured 11d ago against content hash 87993b13da5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ha-esphome-config-augment 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 11d 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.

skills/ha-esphome-config-augment/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HA ESPHome Config Augment

Spec: spec/claude/ha-esphome-config-augment/en.md (EN canonical) / spec/claude/ha-esphome-config-augment/de.md (DE translation). Grounding spec: spec/ha/esphome-config-patterns/en.md.

Adds exactly one addition to one existing device file per invocation, conforming to every MUST in the grounding spec.

Why this is a skill, not an agent

  • Quick, targeted change in the current context (decisive): one block in one YAML file the conversation is already working on; per the change-scope and latency dimensions this routes to the main thread.
  • Mid-flow approval: the component choice, target bus, and naming are confirmed with the operator before writing — a wrong bus binding on a multiplexed topology is expensive to debug on-device.
  • Counter-dimension considered: schema lookup against the ESPHome docs is self-contained (agent bias), but the diff is small and iterated in conversation — isolation would cost more than it protects.

When this skill activates

The user asks to extend an existing ESPHome device — "add an SCD30 to box-02", "füge einen Sensor zum ESPHome-Gerät hinzu" — and the named device file exists.

When NOT to activate

  • a brand-new device → ha-esphome-config-scaffold
  • the shared package itself (cut, parameters, !extend / !remove) → ha-esphome-package-author
  • a value or command Home Assistant drives → ha-esphome-binding-add
  • authoring the custom component itself (C++/Python) → out of scope; no owning skill yet
  • HA-side reactions to the new entities (automations, cards) → ha-automation-solution / ha-lovelace-solution
  • compiling, flashing, or deploying → the ESPHome toolchain / operator

Hard rules

  1. Read spec/ha/esphome-config-patterns/en.md and the target device file (plus its shared packages/snippets) first. Do not generate from memory, and never add a block a shared package already provides.
  2. Verify the component's schema against the official ESPHome docs (https://esphome.io) per spec/ha/upstream-docs-verification before writing; deprecated keys are findings, not output.
  3. Naming stays substitution-derived (${friendly_name}_<platform>_<n>_<measurement>); update_interval prefers the device's existing interval substitution.
  4. Credentials stay environment variables. A new block needing a credential reads it via !env_var and the run reports the variable; never a literal, and never !secret — the grounding spec's credential mechanism is !env_var, which also works in packages where !secret provably cannot.
  5. Explicit bus binding. On multiplexed I2C topologies, bind the new block to a named bus_id — never the implicit default bus.
  6. One addition per run; one device file per run. Legacy <<: !include merge keys in the file are left as-is (never extended, never newly introduced).
  7. No deploy. The skill ends at the edited file plus the validation step report.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 11d ago First seen · 93 lines · 209 tokens per session scan A 87993b13da5e

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ha-esphome-config-augment is a skill published in the GitHub repository nolte/claude-home-assistant (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 1,593 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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