ha-nova

Use when the user wants Home Assistant operations through HA NOVA (App + Relay) with local OS-backed auth.

Use when checking Home Assistant home status, repairs, system health, unavailable/unknown entities, low batteries, or component/config summaries through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when HA NOVA Relay requests fail due to onboarding, connectivity, or auth issues.

Use when checking pending Home Assistant updates (core, OS, Apps, integrations, device firmware), reading release notes, installing updates with safety gates, or skipping/unskipping update versions through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when managing Home Assistant people, zones, tags, and user accounts — creating a person, drawing a zone, adding a tag, or reviewing who has access — through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when working with Home Assistant's voice assistant — testing what Assist understands, inspecting or editing Assist pipelines, managing which entities are exposed to voice, and listing TTS/STT/wake-word engines — through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when checking Home Assistant backup status, creating a backup (including a safety backup before risky changes), inspecting backups, or deleting old backups through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when listing, reading, creating, updating, or deleting Home Assistant calendar events through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when working with Home Assistant cameras — taking a snapshot for the agent to look at, getting a stream URL, or recording — through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when listing, reading, creating, updating, or deleting storage-backed Home Assistant dashboards, Lovelace resources, and targeted card changes through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when diagnosing why a Home Assistant automation, script, device, or integration failed or misbehaved — root-cause analysis from error logs, system logs, traces, and bounded history through HA NOVA Relay. For current home status use ha-nova:health; for plain timelines use ha-nova:history.

Use when analyzing Home Assistant energy data — consumption, solar production, battery, grid costs, per-device usage — or safely editing Energy dashboard sources and tracked devices through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when searching or resolving Home Assistant entities by name, room, or domain through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when Home Assistant's own data is not enough — querying long-term history from InfluxDB (or another external store Home Assistant writes to but cannot read back) directly from this machine.

Mandatory fallback for any HA NOVA task without a dedicated subskill. Must be invoked before any raw relay write operation. Covers blueprints, device config-entry detach, Apps, HACS, Zigbee/Z-Wave, and unsupported config-entry helper families.

Use when creating, updating, deleting, or listing Home Assistant helpers (storage-based helpers plus the supported config-entry helper family) through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when reading Home Assistant entity history, logbook timelines, or long-term statistics through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when adding a Home Assistant integration or continuing an integration reauthentication flow through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when repairing Home Assistant recorder statistics (orphaned statistics, unit mismatches, sum spikes), purging recorder history, or cleaning up dead entity-registry entries through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when controlling or browsing Home Assistant media players — play, pause, volume, source/sound mode, speaker grouping, browsing media libraries, and TTS announcements — through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when debugging or working with MQTT in Home Assistant — listening to topics to see what devices actually publish, inspecting MQTT device discovery, or publishing a message — through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when sending Home Assistant notifications — discovering notify targets, sending messages to phones or speakers, building mobile-app notifications, and managing persistent notifications — through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when organizing Home Assistant areas, floors, labels, categories, and entity/device metadata through HA NOVA Relay.

List/read Home Assistant automation and script configs through HA NOVA Relay. For analysis, use ha-nova:review.

Use when analyzing, reviewing, auditing, or checking Home Assistant automations, scripts, helpers, scenes, or dashboards for errors, best-practice violations, and conflicts. Do not invoke `ha-nova:read` separately — this skill handles discovery and reading internally.

Use when listing, reading, creating, updating, or deleting Home Assistant storage scenes through HA NOVA Relay. For activating a scene, use ha-nova:service-call.

Use when the user wants to call Home Assistant services, fire custom events, trigger known webhooks, or control alarm panels and locks through HA NOVA Relay.

Use when listing, reading, or managing Home Assistant to-do lists and their items (add, update, complete, remove) through HA NOVA Relay, including creating or deleting local to-do lists.

Use when creating, updating, or deleting Home Assistant automations or scripts through HA NOVA Relay. Resolves entities and reviews internally.

Use when creating or editing Home Assistant configuration that only exists as YAML files — template sensors beyond the helper UI, REST and command-line sensors, packages, and themes — through HA NOVA Relay's opt-in file access.