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feat(integrations): Home Assistant as a first-class integration - #372
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Connect with the Home Assistant address and a long-lived access token (kept in
the keychain). Tools find devices by room, kind or words instead of sending the
full entity list, read state, switch lights and switches, set brightness and
thermostats, and run scenes and scripts. Locks, alarms, garage doors and gates
are send level, ask every time with only "Allow once", and get a plain
"Home security" approval card with a caution line.
An entity picker limits which devices Sentient may see and use. Live updates
over the websocket publish state_changed items, so tasks can start when the
front door unlocks. Quick commands now handle lights ("turn off the living
room lights") with no model when the match is exact (ADR 0027). Read only
connections are respected.
Closes #175
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Check name Status Explanation Linked Issues check Issue #175requires URL and token setup, entity listing and selection, and a deterministic command path that does not send all entities to the model. The PR adds the Home Assistant plugin, entity-pick…Out of Scope Changes check The changes support the packaged Home Assistant integration requested by #175. REST and websocket support, device tools, live state-change triggers, approval handling, desktop integration UI, document…Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely identifies Home Assistant as the main new integration, matching the primary changes in the pull request.
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A rabbit checks the lamps at night,
Then taps the switch to make them bright.
A chosen room, a careful cue,
A lock gets asked before it’s through.
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- Around line 24-26: Revise the quick-command safety statement around
ApprovalBroker.needs_approval to qualify when these tools prompt: in approvals
mode off, send risk and allow_for_chat=False alone do not require approval,
though an applicable Ask rule may. State that confirmation occurs only when
approval mode or a matching rule requires it.
Review comments at @sentient/agent/fastpath/__init__.py:
- Line 154: Update the exact-match handling in find so cmd.all (everywhere) is
honored before returning a single exact entity, allowing all matching entities
to be selected. Preserve the current single exact-match behavior when cmd.all is
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Review comments at @sentient/integrations/plugins/home_assistant.py:
- Around line 97-106: Update `_local_host` to parse the normalized host as an IP
address before applying hostname rules; apply those rules only when parsing
fails, and classify parsed IPs using the existing private, loopback, and
link-local checks. Ensure public IPv6 literals are rejected by `check_url` for
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- Line 119: Update the comparison flow around `_fold` so `$regex` evaluation
receives the original field value and query, while literal comparisons continue
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- Around line 295-296: Update the assertion using en.home_done to accept only
the correct confirmation, “Set the bedroom lamp to 30%.” Remove the alternative
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Preserve “all” when an exact entity name matches.
If Home Assistant has an entity named “Kitchen lights” and another kitchen light, “turn off all the kitchen lights” can switch only the exact-name entity. The matcher returns an exact-name result before it applies everywhere. This plan then reports success for the incomplete result. Make the matcher honor everywhere before accepting a single exact match.
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Update the exact-match handling in find so cmd.all (everywhere) is honored
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Keep $contains on the same case-folding path as Home Assistant fields.
Home Assistant filters use casefold() for case-insensitive matching. _fold changes the query Straße to strasse, but _contains compares it with the raw value using lower(), which remains straße. The filter can therefore reject a matching Home Assistant name.
Update _contains to case-fold both operands. Preserving the raw query alone would fix this example but would not preserve case-insensitive matching for equivalent spellings such as STRASSE.
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- ADR 0027 is taken on main (vetting skills and MCP servers): the quick home command ADR is now 0028, with the index, API.md and comments updated. - Unlocking a door, turning off the alarm and opening a garage door, gate or door (and switching something that sounds like one) is a hard stop like a purchase: it asks in every approvals mode, "off" included, an Allow rule, "Allow for this chat" and grants never cover it, task runs pause and ask, subagents stop and scripts refuse it (rules.always_asks, OPENS_HOME_LABELS). Locking and arming follow the normal rules.
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Closes #175
Summary
Desktop: Home Assistant brand icon and "Smart home" category, connect screen from the setup fields, a "Devices Sentient can use" picker in the drawer, a "Device change" trigger, "Home: ..." tool labels, and a Home security approval card (
Unlock "Front door"plus a plain caution line).Also: the task creation prompt knows
home_assistant/state_changedtriggers, and Home Assistant trigger filters compare case-insensitively (qwen3:8b wrote"name": "front door"for the friendly name "Front door").Evidence
Real engine from this worktree on port 8787, fresh
SENTIENT_HOME(own keychain namespace), random gateway token, a fake Home Assistant on 127.0.0.1:18123 (REST, websocket, made-up token) with Maya Rao's living room lights, bedroom lamp, hallway thermostat and front door lock.Quick command, no model:
"dim the bedroom lamp to 30%" ->
light.turn_on {brightness_pct: 30}, "Set the bedroom lamp to 30%.", 93 ms, no model."set the thermostat to 22" through claude-code/sonnet:
find_entities {"kind": "climate"}->set_temperature {climate.hallway_thermostat, 22}-> approval (write, "Sets a temperature", target "Hallway thermostat") -> allowed -> fake-haSERVICE CALL climate.set_temperature {"temperature": 22.0}-> "Set the hallway thermostat to 22°.""unlock the front door" (sonnet):
approval_request {"name": "home_assistant_unlock", "risk": "send", "risk_label": "Unlocks a door", "target": "Front door", "choices": ["allow", "deny"]}, denied -> no unlock reached the fake HA. In the app (screenshot): card "Sentient wants to unlock a door · Home security",Unlock "Front door", red caution "Anyone at that door can walk in once it is unlocked.", buttons Allow once / Deny only.Task trigger (qwen3:8b planner and executor): prompt "When the front door unlocks, send me a notification..." was planned as
{"type": "triggered", "source": "home_assistant", "event": "state_changed", "filter": {"name": "front door", "entity_id": "lock.front_door", "from": "locked", "to": "unlocked"}}. Unlocking the door at the fake HA pushedstate_changed; the engine's live watcher (feedhome_assistant_live, status ok) published it and a run started withtrigger_event_data {"entity_id": "lock.front_door", "name": "Front door", "area": "Hallway", "from": "locked", "to": "unlocked"}. (The executor then tried arun_scriptfor the notification, which paused for the user's OK: safe, but a planning quirk of the small model.)Screenshots (built app, seeded Maya Rao home, looked at): connect dialog with the HA logo, step-by-step guide, address and token fields, Read only / Read and write; the chat with "Home: turn off" quick result and the sonnet thermostat turn; the drawer's "Devices Sentient can use" picker grouped by room with "Always asks" on the lock and the "Device change" trigger; the pending unlock card.
Tests:
tests/integrations/test_home_assistant.py(32: connect, wrong token, URL rules, find/narrow/picker, service calls, risk levels, phrasings in and out, exact matching, quick turn withllm.calls == [], unclear/unsafe/always/Ask rule/Read only go to the model, unlock offers only allow/deny, picker routes, websocket rooms, live update starts a triggered task, case-insensitive filters). Full suite: 2050 passed, 2 skipped. Ruff clean. Desktop typecheck, build andnpm test(66, with the new Home security wording test) pass.Opening the home asks even with approvals off (re-run after review): approvals mode
offplus an Allow rule onhome_assistant_unlock, fresh chat, no look-up first (so no outside-content question either), claude-code/sonnet:Same setup, "Lock the front door":
home_assistant_lockran at once with no question (fake-haSERVICE CALL lock.lock), so locking follows the normal rules. With allow, the unlock went through (SERVICE CALL lock.unlock). Tests cover unlock, disarm, garage cover and a garage-sounding switch asking in mode off with an Allow rule, lock, arm and blinds not asking, a task/subagent loop holding an unlock, and scripts refusing it.Merge Danger
Door: two-way
New plugin, routes and config key. Shared behavior changes:
ApprovalBroker.quick_runs(used only by quick commands), the new hard stoprules.always_asks(purchases plus the four "opens the home" labels, used bydecide, grants, the agent loop's unattended path and the script policy), and case-insensitive trigger filters forhome_assistantonly.Blast Radius: small
Quick commands now also parse "turn on/off X" phrasings; without Home Assistant connected they go to the model as before.
tests/test_quick_commands.pyhad "turn off the living room lights" listed as "no smart-home integration yet"; replaced with a lock-plus-lights phrase.Open for the owner: