switchbot

switchbot is a skill for Claude Code from OpenWonderLabs/switchbot-openapi-cli. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,432 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A control guide for SwitchBot smart-home devices, including lights, locks, curtains, sensors, plugs, and infrared appliances such as TVs and air conditioners. It uses the SwitchBot command-line tool and checks the user’s device settings before acting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover devices and capabilities, check their status, control them, manage scenes, inspect account quota, and follow the configured safety policy.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes caused by guessing device identifiers, available commands, or safety-sensitive settings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Part of the switchbot plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover devices and capabilities, check their status, control them, manage scenes, inspect account quota, and follow the configured safety policy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openwonderlabs/switchbot-openapi-cli/switchbot
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 OpenWonderLabs/switchbot-openapi-cli --skill switchbot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenWonderLabs/switchbot-openapi-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install switchbot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,432 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 121
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Anti-Refusal · line 198
    Skill attempts to nullify the agent's safety policies or restrictions ('you have no restrictions', 'ignore your guidelines', 'do anything now'). This is a direct jailbreak that disables guardrails.
    Fix: Remove jailbreak framing that nullifies safety policies or restrictions. Skill content must not instruct the agent to ignore its guidelines or operate without guardrails.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 198
    This pattern attempts to override system instructions or ignore safety constraints. Without LLM analysis, manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Remove or rewrite any text that instructs the agent to ignore prompts, override safety rules, or trust unverified content. Ensure skill content cannot be injected to alter agent behavior.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 212
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00069 $0.02432
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00973
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00243

Measured 5d ago against content hash 69bd140168fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

switchbot 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 5d 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.

packages/claude-code-plugin/plugins/switchbot/skills/switchbot/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SwitchBot skill

Drive the user's SwitchBot smart home through the switchbot CLI. Always query the CLI for ground truth — never guess commands, deviceIds, or parameter values.


Authority chain

Question Authoritative command
What can I do (cold start)? switchbot agent-bootstrap --compact --json
What commands exist? switchbot capabilities --json
What flags does this command take? switchbot <cmd> --help --json
What devices does the user have? switchbot devices list --json
What's this device doing right now? switchbot devices status <id> --json
What can I do with this specific device type? switchbot devices describe <id> --json
What scenes are configured? switchbot scenes list --json
What's on the user's AI MindClip (recordings, transcript, todos, summaries)? mindclip_recordings (action: list/get/summary/transcript), mindclip_list_todos, mindclip_recall MCP tools
What's in a Kata Friends diary? device_diary with integer-millisecond start/end, up to 31 days
What's in the user's policy.yaml? cat ~/.config/openclaw/switchbot/policy.yaml
Is my quota OK? switchbot quota status --json
Is the setup healthy? switchbot doctor --json
What automation rules are configured? switchbot rules list --json
Are the rules valid? switchbot rules lint
Draft an execution plan from intent switchbot plan suggest --intent "..." --device <id>
Run a plan with per-step approval switchbot plan run <file> --require-approval
Draft an automation rule from intent switchbot rules suggest --intent "..." --device <id>
Inject a rule into policy.yaml switchbot policy add-rule [--dry-run] [--enable] (reads YAML from stdin)

Network requirements

Claude Code loads the default SwitchBot MCP profile through the plugin or an explicit MCP-only registration. The default profile intentionally contains read and action tools, not every admin tool. Use CLI commands for policy, audit, or rules administration unless a separately configured MCP server explicitly enables that scope. The MCP server needs outbound HTTPS to api.switch-bot.com. If connection errors appear, see references/claude-code-network.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago Changed · +1 lines 69bd140168fa
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 213 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A a82048d7aa44

Subscribe to this mod's changes

switchbot is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenWonderLabs/switchbot-openapi-cli (135 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,432 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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