Agent skill

Ha Android Review

by home-assistant in home-assistant/android

Home Assistant Android code review guidance. An agent skill from home-assistant/android.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Ha Android Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add home-assistant/android --skill ha-android-review -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install home-assistant/android ha-android-review --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/home-assistant/android.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/ha-android-review .claude/skills/ha-android-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
ha-android-review
GitHub stars
4k
Token cost
~594 tokens
SKILL.md length
290 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
10
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Home Assistant Android code review guidance. An agent skill from home-assistant/android.

  • Reviewing changes
  • SKILL.md covers Review Checklist, Engineering Values, Review Tone and Security
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • A diff for correctness

What it does

Ha Android Review is an agent skill from home-assistant/android. Home Assistant Android code review guidance. Use when reviewing changes or a diff for correctness, style, and convention adherence, or checking security requirements.

Its SKILL.md is about 590 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development. It works with Android, Home Assistant and Kotlin. The repository describes itself as: Home Assistant Companion for Android. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Reviewing changes
  • A diff for correctness
  • Convention adherence
  • Checking security requirements

Example prompts

  • “/ha-android-review”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9e658ce. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Ha Android Review loads about 594 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 46 tokens; SKILL.md has 290 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~46
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~594

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from home-assistant/android at commit 9e658ce, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© home-assistant). 290 words, ~594 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ha-android-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ha-android-review
description
Home Assistant Android code review guidance. Use when reviewing changes or a diff for correctness, style, and convention adherence, or checking security requirements.

HA Android Review

Use this skill when reviewing Home Assistant Android changes. For finalizing your own change — format, tests, changelog, branch, and PR — use the ha-android-committing skill.

Review Checklist

Load the skill covering each dimension the change touches and review against its rules — the rules live in the skills, not here, so this list stays a router:

  • Kotlin style: constants, strong types, immutability, visibility, KDoc — ha-android-kotlin-style.
  • Coroutines and threading: scopes, dispatchers, shared state, blocking calls — ha-android-concurrency.
  • Logging and errors: catch blocks, CancellationException, sensitive data, FailFast — ha-android-logging-errors.
  • UI: Compose, HATheme, ViewState, navigation, widgets — ha-android-ui.
  • Structure: modules, layers, ViewModels, repositories, server-version gating, DI, storage — ha-android-architecture.
  • Tests: unit, Turbine, Robolectric, screenshot and interaction tests — ha-android-testing.

One review point that has no other home: reuse before rewrite — check whether the logic already exists (pickers, url handling, shared utils) and extract shared code instead of duplicating it.

Engineering Values

  • Mechanism over reminder: when the same review comment keeps coming back, encode it instead of repeating it — a custom lint rule in :lint, a KTLint override in .editorconfig, a FailFast check, a module-wide test listener, or an update to these skills. A convention that relies on people remembering it will keep being violated.
  • Root cause before fix: a bug fix must state the actual cause and how to reproduce it. Don't patch symptoms; if the cause is external (platform, WebView, library), document the evidence and the repro steps rather than adding speculative workarounds.

Review Tone

Be kind and respectful. Give hints instead of orders, and use examples to explain issues.

Security

  • GitHub Actions: use the most restrictive permissions — don't request write when read (or none) suffices.
  • Never commit tokens or secrets; use GitHub Secrets for CI/CD.
  • Use well-known, maintained libraries or stick to the Android SDK.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/ha-android-review of home-assistant/android.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9e658ce

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Questions about Ha Android Review

What does Ha Android Review do?

Home Assistant Android code review guidance. An agent skill from home-assistant/android. Ha Android Review is an agent skill from home-assistant/android. Home Assistant Android code review guidance.

When should I use Ha Android Review?

Ha Android Review fits situations like: reviewing changes; A diff for correctness; convention adherence; checking security requirements.

How do I install Ha Android Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add home-assistant/android --skill ha-android-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/ha-android-review in home-assistant/android) into .claude/skills/ha-android-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ha Android Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add home-assistant/android --skill ha-android-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/ha-android-review in home-assistant/android) into .agents/skills/ha-android-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ha Android Review in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add home-assistant/android --skill ha-android-review -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ha-android-review, .gemini/skills/ha-android-review, .github/skills/ha-android-review and .opencode/skills/ha-android-review in your project.

What does Ha Android Review need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ha Android Review is instructions for the agent only.

Does Ha Android Review access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ha Android Review safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Ha Android Review use?

Ha Android Review is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Ha Android Review use?

About 594 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ha Android Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ha Android Review: Android Clean Architecture (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars), Kotlin Specialist (Jeffallan/claude-skills, 12k stars), Kotlin Coroutines (rcosteira79/android-skills, 153 stars) and Architecture Overclock (nekomangaorg/Neko, 2.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ha Android Review?

home-assistant (a GitHub organization) maintains it in home-assistant/android, which has 3,954 GitHub stars. The repository holds 10 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: home-assistant/android on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.