Ha Direct Access Skill

ha-direct-access — Claude Skill for Home Assistant

**For claude.ai users with Desktop Commander.** Not a Claude Code skill. Not an MCP server. No extra infrastructure.

Give Claude direct, autonomous access to your Home Assistant instance — read and edit config files, call the REST API, reload automations, run CLI commands, and perform QA checks — all from within a claude.ai chat, without you touching a terminal.

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Who This Is For

This skill is specifically designed for **claude.ai Projects users** who have [Desktop Commander](https://desktopcommander.app) connected as an MCP server.

If that's you, this skill gives Claude full HA access with zero additional infrastructure.

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How It's Different From Everything Else

	This Skill	Claude Code Skills	HA MCP Server (official)	ha-mcp
Interface	claude.ai web/app	Claude Code CLI	Claude Desktop	Claude Desktop / API
Requires Claude Code	❌ No	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No
Requires server on HA	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Requires extra infra	❌ No	❌ No	✅ mcp-proxy	✅ Docker/add-on
Edits config files directly	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No
Works in claude.ai Projects	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	❌ No
Self-updating skill file	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	❌ No

**The gap this fills:** Every existing solution requires either Claude Code (a separate paid CLI tool), or a custom MCP server running on your network. This skill works with the claude.ai interface you already use, using Desktop Commander (which many claude.ai users already have) and Python's `paramiko` library to SSH directly into HA. Nothing else needed.

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What Claude Can Do With This Skill

• ✅ Edit automations.yaml, scripts.yaml, configuration.yaml directly
• ✅ Reload automations, scripts, templates, HomeKit Bridge — no full restarts
• ✅ Run config validity checks and scan for repairs before closing any task
• ✅ Debug automations using traces and HA