ha-troubleshooting SKILL.md skillA
ha-troubleshooting from calexandre/homeassistant-assistant is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add calexandre/homeassistant-assistant/ha-troubleshooting@git:20261107.d65d47ePins git:20261107.d65d47e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- calexandre/homeassistant-assistant
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- Latest version
- git:20261107.d65d47e, committed Nov 7, 2026
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- 5
- License
- MIT
Diagnoses failing Home Assistant automations, integrations, and entities by checking the config, logs, traces, and Developer Tools before proposing a fix. Use when something is failing, erroring, misbehaving, or needs a deeper debugging diagnosis, including a GetLiveContext call that fails or misses an entity.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# HA Troubleshooting Playbook ## When to use - An automation, integration, or entity is failing, erroring, or misbehaving. - The user asks to debug, diagnose, or investigate a problem. - `GetLiveContext` fails, or its output lacks an entity the user names: go to [MCP connection problems](#mcp-connection-problems). ## Prerequisites - Always re-fetch config snapshots for debugging — logs and state change frequently. Invoke the `ha-config-fetch` skill instead of reading `ha-data/` directly. - Use the `ha-docs-sitemap` skill to look up docs for the failing integration or feature before answering. ## Playbook Run these in order, stopping when the cause is found: 1. **Validate configuration** — Settings → System → Repairs → Check configuration. 2. **Review logs** — Settings → System → Logs; for raw logs invoke the `ha-config-fetch` skill and read `core.log` / `supervisor.log` from the refreshed snapshots. 3. **Inspect automation traces** — Automations → select automation → Traces. 4. **Use Developer Tools** — States, Services; Template editor to test Jinja. 5. **Enable debug logging** for the specific integration per the official docs. ## MCP connection problems …
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How to install
mdr add calexandre/homeassistant-assistant/ha-troubleshooting@sha256:59b97191b1fa0c64The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261107.d65d47e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
calexandre/homeassistant-assistant · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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