ha-panel-author

ha-panel-author is a skill for Claude Code from nolte/claude-home-assistant. It costs 228 tokens per session (3,027 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development workflow for building a complete Home Assistant Lovelace panel or dashboard surface. Home Assistant is software for controlling smart-home devices, and Lovelace is its user interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing and implementing custom panels, panel-mode views, or custom views, including their data connection, layout, and conformance checks.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right kind of dashboard surface and checks data handling, responsive layout, performance, and theming together. This reduces the risk of producing a panel that works only in a narrow setup.

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 designing and implementing custom panels, panel-mode views, or custom views, including their data connection, layout, and conformance checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nolte/claude-home-assistant/ha-panel-author
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nolte/claude-home-assistant --skill ha-panel-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 228 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,027 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 $0.00228 $0.03027
Opus 5 $0.00114 $0.01514
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00303

Measured 10d ago against content hash cb34148447e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ha-panel-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 10d 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-panel-author/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HA Panel Author

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

This skill is the senior panel-developer of the Lovelace/frontend family. Where ha-panel-add mechanically scaffolds one custom panel against a single spec, this skill develops a panel end-to-end to production grade: it picks the right delivery shape, wires the data channel, honours layout/responsive/performance/theming discipline, and holds the result to the whole relevant spec set — then reuses ha-panel-add for the base scaffold rather than reinventing it.

Why this is a skill, not an agent

  • Human-visible senior surface — the user describes a need and reads back the delivery-shape decision, the build plan, the generated code, and a multi-spec conformance report; a skill keeps that judgement on the visible command surface, like the sibling ha-lovelace-solution.
  • Mid-flow interactivity — the delivery-shape decision (custom panel vs. panel-mode view vs. custom view), the data-source/backend decision, and plan approval are per-run dialogues the user must see and approve before generation.
  • Orchestrator-leaning — it dispatches ha-panel-add (base scaffold) and, when a backend endpoint is needed, ha-websocket-command-add; the skill-orchestrates-skill default keeps the entry point in skill form.
  • Counter-dimension considered: the develop→validate→iterate loop could be an agent, but the shape decision, the backend call-out, and the report belong in the user's working context; skill wins.

When this skill activates

Use this skill when the user wants a complete, production-grade panel built with senior judgement — not just a bare scaffold: a full-page sidebar page, a single-card panel-mode view, or a custom-view layout container, developed with correct data access, layout/responsive discipline, and a spec-conformance report.

When NOT to activate

  • just the minimal one-panel scaffold (bare custom element + panel_custom entry, no senior development) → ha-panel-add
  • a single custom card → ha-lovelace-card-scaffold / ha/lovelace-card-patterns
  • a multi-artifact frontend solution across the whole Lovelace family (card + editor + feature + badge + …) → ha-lovelace-solution (which MAY dispatch this skill for the panel part)
  • a programmatic dashboard/view strategy → ha-strategy-add / ha/lovelace-strategies
  • the Python custom-integration backend (the WebSocket-command host, own protocol, config flow) → ha-integration-scaffold
  • deploying/importing into a running HA instance → out of scope (generation only)

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 10d ago First seen · 128 lines · 228 tokens per session scan A cb34148447e9

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ha-panel-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository nolte/claude-home-assistant (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 228 tokens to every session and 3,027 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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