ha-hacs-release

ha-hacs-release is a skill for Claude Code from nolte/claude-home-assistant. It costs 208 tokens per session (1,878 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Home Assistant skill that prepares an existing custom integration for HACS, the community store used to install and update Home Assistant integrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It creates and checks hacs.json, aligns the integration version, prepares a ZIP release, and connects the release process to reusable GitHub workflows.
Why use it?
It brings the distribution files, version details, branding, and release workflow into the format HACS expects.

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 creates and checks hacs.json, aligns the integration version, prepares a ZIP release, and connects the release process to reusable GitHub workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nolte/claude-home-assistant/ha-hacs-release
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-hacs-release
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 208 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,878 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 $0.00208 $0.01878
Opus 5 $0.00104 $0.00939
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00188

Measured 12d ago against content hash 574124cdb7f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ha-hacs-release 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-hacs-release/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HA HACS Release

Spec: spec/claude/ha-hacs-release/en.md (EN canonical) / spec/claude/ha-hacs-release/de.md (DE translation).

This skill operationalizes spec/ha/hacs-release/en.md — the HACS-specific distribution layer (hacs.json, version alignment, ZIP release, brands) — on top of the portfolio's generic release-automation flow. It closes the audit finding that the ha/hacs-release spec exists but no skill or agent makes a consumer integration HACS-release-ready.

Why this is a skill, not an agent

  • Human-visible augmentation surface — the user reads back hacs.json, the version-alignment check, and the ZIP-CD wiring and confirms the distribution model; a skill keeps this on the visible command surface.
  • Mid-flow interactivity — the ZIP-vs-default-branch distribution choice, the minimum HA version, and whether brands is already registered are per-run dialogues the user confirms.
  • Orchestrator-leaning — it surfaces the generic release-automation prerequisites and points at nolte/gh-plumbing reusable workflows rather than duplicating release logic; the skill-orchestrates default keeps it in skill form.
  • Counter-dimension considered: the verify loop could be an agent, but the distribution-model decision and the report belong in the user's working context; skill wins.

When this skill activates

Use this skill to make an existing integration installable and updatable through HACS — scaffold or verify hacs.json, the manifest/tag version alignment, and the ZIP-release CD obligation — per ha/hacs-release.

When NOT to activate

  • the generic release publish flow (Draft → Published, chore(release) alignment, version-bearing files) → spec/project/release-automation (operationalized by nolte-shared:release-publish-trigger)
  • the CI validation workflow (hassfest / HACS action / pytest) → ha-integration-ci-scaffold
  • generating the Python integration code → ha-integration-scaffold
  • deploying/importing into a running HA instance → out of scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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 · 94 lines · 208 tokens per session scan A 574124cdb7f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ha-hacs-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository nolte/claude-home-assistant (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 208 tokens to every session and 1,878 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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