ha-esphome-display-author

ha-esphome-display-author is a skill for Claude Code from nolte/claude-home-assistant. It costs 265 tokens per session (2,938 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided procedure for designing the content shown on an ESPHome device's screen. It chooses one display rendering method, creates pages for reachable states, and applies a defined layout and visual system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating the screen pages, redraw logic, layout, colors, text sizes, icons, and fallback states for one device display.
Why use it?
It prevents incompatible display approaches from being mixed and ensures that normal and degraded device states have visible screens.

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 It is for creating the screen pages, redraw logic, layout, colors, text sizes, icons, and fallback states for one device display.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nolte/claude-home-assistant/ha-esphome-display-author
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 nolte/claude-home-assistant --skill ha-esphome-display-author
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 265 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,938 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 $0.00265 $0.02938
Opus 5 $0.00133 $0.01469
Sonnet 5 $0.00053 $0.00588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00294

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6e5a5120175f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ha-esphome-display-author 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 12d 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-display-author/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HA ESPHome Display Author

Spec: spec/claude/ha-esphome-display-author/en.md (EN canonical) / spec/claude/ha-esphome-display-author/de.md (DE translation). Grounding specs: spec/ha/esp32-s3-box-display/en.md (rendering mechanics, canonical for the 320×240 panel), spec/ha/esp32-s3-box-display-design/en.md (the design system layered on those mechanics — palette, type scale, icon scale, structure), and spec/ha/esp32-s3-box/en.md §Display binding (the hardware side, referenced not repeated).

Authors what is on the screen and where — the pages, the redraw discipline, the geometry, and the design system applied to them — for one display of one device per invocation.

Why this is a skill, not an agent

  • Mid-flow approval is the contract (decisive): the rendering-path choice is expensive to reverse (page lambdas and widget trees share no code, so switching later is a rewrite of the whole UI), and the state-to-page mapping is a design conversation, not a derivation.
  • Iterated visual work in the current context: layouts are adjusted in rounds — a zone moved, a font size dropped, a string truncated — which is main-thread territory.
  • Counter-dimension considered: the asset and memory budgeting is mechanical enough to isolate (agent bias), but it feeds directly back into the layout decisions being discussed; skill wins.

When this skill activates

The user wants content on an ESPHome device's panel — "was soll auf dem Display der Box stehen", "add a page for the timer", "design the idle screen" — for a device whose display is already bound.

When NOT to activate

  • the panel's hardware binding (SPI pins, model: preset, invert_colors, backlight light) → ha-esphome-config-augment, taking the values from spec/ha/esp32-s3-box/en.md
  • where the displayed values come from → ha-esphome-binding-add
  • the voice-assistant lifecycle that drives the reference screens → ha-esphome-voice-satellite-add
  • a Divoom Pixoo 64 → ha-pixoo-solution (a different device family with its own specs)
  • a panel geometry other than 320×240 → the grounding specs' constants are specific to this panel: the zone grid to 320×240, and the design spec's legibility table and icon sizes to its 2.4-inch, 166.7 ppi geometry. State that limit rather than extrapolating

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 12d ago First seen · 109 lines · 265 tokens per session scan A 6e5a5120175f

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ha-esphome-display-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository nolte/claude-home-assistant (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 265 tokens to every session and 2,938 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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