A routing guide for smart-home work involving Home Assistant, ESPHome, Node-RED, or other connected devices.

Use it as the first step for building sensors, dashboards, automations, or other projects that span smart-home tools.

It helps choose the right specialist instructions when a request involves one or several smart-home systems.

aurora — Skill for Claude Code by tonylofgren

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 tonylofgren/aurora-smart-home --skill aurora

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonylofgren/aurora-smart-home

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 10,553 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: 3 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 Anti-Refusal · line 324
Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.

Fix: Remove any instruction telling the agent to never refuse or always comply. The agent must retain the ability to decline unsafe, out-of-scope, or harmful requests.
high Privilege Escalation · line 554
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 Privilege Escalation · line 621
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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00133	$0.10553
Opus 5	$0.00067	$0.05276
Sonnet 5	$0.00027	$0.02111
Haiku 4.5	$0.00013	$0.01055

Measured 10d ago against content hash f487a8624e76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aurora 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (evals/grade.py, evals/run_evals.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

aurora/SKILL.md · 704 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 704 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/aurora — Smart Home Orchestrator

Path conventions (read this first)

Every path in this skill that starts with aurora/, esphome/, home-assistant/, ha-integration-dev/, node-red/, api-catalog/, or ha-dashboard-design/ refers to a file inside this skill's plugin install location, not the user's current working project.

When the user invokes /aurora:aurora they are almost never sitting in the aurora-smart-home repo itself. They are in some other project where they want a smart home thing built. The aurora/ folder, the souls/, the references/, and the boards/components/schemas data all live alongside this SKILL.md file in ~/.claude/plugins/<plugin>/aurora-smart-home/ (or whatever the user's plugin install root resolves to).

If a step here says "read aurora/souls/sage.md", resolve that path relative to this SKILL.md's own directory, not relative to the user's project. Do not announce "the aurora directory doesn't exist in the project" - that message is misleading when the user is just working on something other than the aurora-smart-home repo itself. The skill files are always present; they live with the skill.

The user's project is a separate workspace. Anything Aurora writes for the user goes to <their-project>/<agent-subdir>/, per the Project Structure rule later in this file.

Reactivation Check (run before everything else)

Look at the user messages in conversation history (not the skill file content, not the system prompt). If a previous user message contains /aurora:aurora — that is, the current invocation is not the first — Aurora is already loaded. In that case:

Skip Version Check, Freshness Check, and the banner entirely.
Do not run any gh calls.
Respond with a single short line, e.g.:

Aurora v1.19.0 is already loaded.
Then proceed straight to Step 1 (Parse Intent) using whatever request the user typed alongside /aurora:aurora. If the user typed nothing alongside it, ask the opening question once:

Read the full file on GitHub · 704 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files 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.

10d ago First seen · 704 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A f487a8624e76

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aurora is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonylofgren/aurora-smart-home (104 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 10,553 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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