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Overview

Use when working with Home Assistant's own built-in voice assistant (Assist) — testing what it understands, inspecting, editing, or creating Assist pipelines, managing which entities are exposed to voice, listing TTS/STT/wake-word engines, and teaching Assist custom sentences — through HA NOVA Relay. Not for Alexa or Google Assistant — setting those up is `ha-nova:integration-setup` (or `ha-nova:yaml-config` for a manual cloud config), and one that STOPPED working is a concrete failure for `ha-nova:diagnose`.

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HA NOVA Assist

Scope

Home Assistant's built-in voice assistant (Assist):

test what Assist understands — send an utterance and see the real answer, without speaking
inspect, create, and edit Assist pipelines (which STT, conversation agent, TTS a pipeline uses) and change the preferred one
teach Assist custom sentences (see Custom Sentences below)
manage which entities are exposed to voice, and their aliases
list available TTS, STT, conversation, and wake-word engines

Not in scope: speaking through a speaker (ha-nova:media for TTS announcements), microphone/satellite hardware setup, or the third-party assistants (Alexa/Google) — setup goes to ha-nova:integration-setup (or ha-nova:yaml-config for a manual cloud config), and a failure ("Alexa stopped working") to ha-nova:diagnose like any other integration incident.

Bootstrap (once per session)

Read and follow ../ha-nova/session-bootstrap.md. Verify relay CLI: ha-nova relay health If this fails: ha-nova setup

Relay Contract

ha-nova relay ws --data-file <payload-file> for WS commands
ha-nova relay core --method POST --path /api/conversation/process --body-file <payload-file> to test an utterance
--out <result-file> for large listings

Flow

Testing an utterance (the most useful thing here): POST /api/conversation/process with {"text":"turn on the kitchen light","language":"en"} (add "agent_id" to target a specific agent). The response says what Assist understood and what it did.
- This ACTUALLY EXECUTES the command. "Turn on the light" turns the light on. Treat it as a service call: preview it, confirm it, and never fire a test utterance that changes something without asking.
- A read-only utterance ("what is the temperature in the kitchen") is safe to run directly.
- "conversation_id" continues a previous exchange; omit it for a fresh one.
Pipelines: WS assist_pipeline/pipeline/list shows every pipeline plus preferred_pipeline. Each carries stt_engine, conversation_engine, tts_engine, and language settings.
- change the preferred one: WS assist_pipeline/pipeline/set_preferred with pipeline_id
- create: WS assist_pipeline/pipeline/create. The named default is clone-preferred-with-a-different-engine: read the preferred pipeline from the list, carry its settings fields over, add the REQUIRED new name, and swap only the engine(s) the user asked for (the local-LLM move: same STT/TTS, different conversation_engine). Resolve the new engine id from step 4's inventories — never invent one. Preview every field, labeling cloned vs changed, confirm, then create; verify by re-reading the pipeline list for the new pipeline with the requested settings. Creating never changes the preferred pipeline — offer set_preferred separately
- update: WS assist_pipeline/pipeline/update — read the pipeline first, then send ALL its settings fields with your change, addressed by pipeline_id (the list's id value). Never send it as id — that slot is the WS request id. A partial payload drops settings.
- delete: WS assist_pipeline/pipeline/delete — typed confirmation code; a pipeline in use by a satellite breaks it
Exposed entities (what voice can even see): WS homeassistant/expose_entity/list; expose or hide with WS homeassistant/expose_entity (assistants: ["conversation"], entity_ids, should_expose). Aliases live in the entity registry (ha-nova:organize owns those).
- Exposing an entity gives voice control over it — preview the list before changing it.
- Risk-weight the preview: exposing a lock, alarm_control_panel, or a cover with a garage/gate/door device_class means anyone within earshot can actuate physical access by voice — flag these entities explicitly as high-consequence before confirming.
Engines: WS tts/engine/list, stt/engine/list, conversation/agent/list, wake_word/info. Read-only inventories; use them to explain what a pipeline can be built from.
Verify pipeline changes by re-reading the pipeline list, and exposure changes by re-reading expose_entity/list — never report success from the command response alone. After a pipeline or exposure change made to FIX an utterance, offer to re-run that exact utterance as the proof (with the standing warning that a test utterance executes what it understands).

Custom Sentences

Teach Assist a phrase it does not understand out of the box. This skill owns the workflow; the file paths, payload mechanics, and search query live in skills/fallback/relay-ready.md → Assist Custom Sentences — read that section first, do not duplicate it here.

Opt-in gate: sentence files need the relay's opt-in file access (ha-nova:yaml-config → Bootstrap explains enabling it). Without it, stop and say so.
Write the sentence file (and, only when the intent is new, the intent_script: block in configuration.yaml) per the fallback section's mechanics — backup: true, read the whole file before replacing it.
Validate BEFORE any reload: when configuration.yaml changed, POST /api/config/core/check_config FIRST. On invalid, restore that file's .bak immediately and do not reload.
Reload the right thing: conversation.reload reloads the sentence matcher — enough when only sentence files changed. A handler in an existing intent_script: block reloads via intent_script.reload — a new intent changed BOTH files, so run conversation.reload too; only the FIRST-ever top-level intent_script: block takes a Home Assistant restart (the integration is not yet set up). Say which applies; no phrase test before.
Live test is mandatory: run the exact phrase through POST /api/conversation/process (Flow step 1 rules — a test utterance executes what it matches). A sentence file that parses is not a sentence Assist matched; never claim success without this test.
Rollback distinguishes reload from restart: a failed phrase test after a sentence-file change → restore the .bak (or delete the new file), conversation.reload again, re-test one known-good phrase. A rolled-back intent_script drops its stale handler with intent_script.reload; if the block never loaded (first-block), the restore alone suffices.

Error Handling

Full relay/upstream error taxonomy: skills/ha-nova/relay-api.md -> Error Handling. Assist specifics:

assist_pipeline/run is NOT usable here: it is a streaming subscription (audio), and the relay is request/response. Testing an utterance goes through /api/conversation/process instead.
An unknown WS command usually means an older Home Assistant — say which version introduced it rather than guessing a workaround.
A conversation response of "Sorry, I couldn't understand that" is a real answer, not an error: it means the intent did not match. Report what Assist actually said.

Output Format

Apply skills/ha-nova/output-rules.md to all user-facing output. Write previews, delete confirmations, and results render as the Cards defined there.

Render the Report shape (output-rules.md). For an utterance test: the exact response text Assist gave, what it did (or did not) match, and which entities it touched. For pipelines: name, engines, language, and which one is preferred. Never paraphrase Assist's answer into something friendlier than it was.

Safety

Preview before write: nothing is saved until the user confirms the shown preview.
Confirmation binds to the displayed preview and expires on any change to target, payload, endpoint, or scope (context skill → Active Preview Confirmation).
Pre-preview phrases ("do it", "go ahead", "implement the plan") authorize drafting and preview only — never the write itself.
Delete and destructive operations require the typed confirmation code confirm:<token> verbatim; "yes" or any natural-language reply is invalid.
Never guess entity, service, or config IDs — resolve them or ask.
Home Assistant is reached exclusively through ha-nova relay.
For any HA write this skill does not cover, STOP and invoke ha-nova:fallback first — never probe unfamiliar write endpoints.
Drafts follow skills/ha-nova/smallest-solution.md: the complete requested outcome in the simplest safe design, nothing for hypothetical future needs.
A test utterance is a live command. conversation/process executes what it understands. Anything that could change state gets a preview and confirmation, exactly like a service call.
An utterance is the least enumerable indirect actuation there is: what it reaches is decided by the conversation agent at runtime. When the utterance plausibly reaches a lock, alarm panel, or access cover — the words themselves, or the exposed entity set makes it reachable — it takes the typed confirm:<token> (context skill → Confirmation Tiers), including the re-run proof after an exposure fix.
Exposing entities to voice grants voice control over them — show the full list before changing exposure.
Pipeline updates resend every settings field: read first, or you silently drop settings.
No change here has a revert: restore exposure by re-toggling, restore a pipeline by resending its prior fields. A deleted pipeline recreates with a new pipeline_id — satellites pointing at the old one must be re-pointed.

Guardrails

One pipeline or one exposure change per operation.
Never invent pipeline_id or agent_id values — list them first.
Never claim Assist "understood" something the response does not show.

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name: assist
description: Use when working with Home Assistant's own built-in voice assistant (Assist) — testing what it understands, inspecting, editing, or creating Assist pipelines, managing which entities are exposed to voice, listing TTS/STT/wake-word engines, and teaching Assist custom sentences — through HA NOVA Relay. Not for Alexa or Google Assistant — setting those up is `ha-nova:integration-setup` (or `ha-nova:yaml-config` for a manual cloud config), and one that STOPPED working is a concrete failure for `ha-nova:diagnose`.
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires the ha-nova CLI (run 'ha-nova setup' first) and the HA NOVA Relay in Home Assistant (App, or standalone container on Container/Core).

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---
name: assist
description: Use when working with Home Assistant's own built-in voice assistant (Assist) — testing what it understands, inspecting, editing, or creating Assist pipelines, managing which entities are exposed to voice, listing TTS/STT/wake-word engines, and teaching Assist custom sentences — through HA NOVA Relay. Not for Alexa or Google Assistant — setting those up is `ha-nova:integration-setup` (or `ha-nova:yaml-config` for a manual cloud config), and one that STOPPED working is a concrete failure for `ha-nova:diagnose`.
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires the ha-nova CLI (run 'ha-nova setup' first) and the HA NOVA Relay in Home Assistant (App, or standalone container on Container/Core).
---

# HA NOVA Assist

## Scope

Home Assistant's built-in voice assistant (Assist):
- **test what Assist understands** — send an utterance and see the real answer, without speaking
- inspect, create, and edit Assist pipelines (which STT, conversation agent, TTS a pipeline uses) and change the preferred one
- teach Assist custom sentences (see Custom Sentences below)
- manage which entities are exposed to voice, and their aliases
- list available TTS, STT, conversation, and wake-word engines

Not in scope: speaking through a speaker (`ha-nova:media` for TTS announcements), microphone/satellite hardware setup, or the third-party assistants (Alexa/Google) — setup goes to `ha-nova:integration-setup` (or `ha-nova:yaml-config` for a manual cloud config), and a failure ("Alexa stopped working") to `ha-nova:diagnose` like any other integration incident.

## Bootstrap (once per session)

Read and follow `../ha-nova/session-bootstrap.md`.
Verify relay CLI: `ha-nova relay health`
If this fails: `ha-nova setup`

## Relay Contract

- `ha-nova relay ws --data-file <payload-file>` for WS commands
- `ha-nova relay core --method POST --path /api/conversation/process --body-file <payload-file>` to test an utterance
- `--out <result-file>` for large listings

## Flow

1. **Testing an utterance** (the most useful thing here): `POST /api/conversation/process` with `{"text":"turn on the kitchen light","language":"en"}` (add `"agent_id"` to target a specific agent). The response says what Assist understood and what it did.
- **This ACTUALLY EXECUTES the command.** "Turn on the light" turns the light on. Treat it as a service call: preview it, confirm it, and never fire a test utterance that changes something without asking.
- A read-only utterance ("what is the temperature in the kitchen") is safe to run directly.
- `"conversation_id"` continues a previous exchange; omit it for a fresh one.
2. **Pipelines**: WS `assist_pipeline/pipeline/list` shows every pipeline plus `preferred_pipeline`. Each carries `stt_engine`, `conversation_engine`, `tts_engine`, and language settings.
- change the preferred one: WS `assist_pipeline/pipeline/set_preferred` with `pipeline_id`
- create: WS `assist_pipeline/pipeline/create`. The named default is **clone-preferred-with-a-different-engine**: read the preferred pipeline from the list, carry its settings fields over, add the REQUIRED new `name`, and swap only the engine(s) the user asked for (the local-LLM move: same STT/TTS, different `conversation_engine`). Resolve the new engine id from step 4's inventories — never invent one. Preview every field, labeling cloned vs changed, confirm, then create; verify by re-reading the pipeline list for the new pipeline with the requested settings. Creating never changes the preferred pipeline — offer `set_preferred` separately
- update: WS `assist_pipeline/pipeline/update` — read the pipeline first, then send ALL its settings fields with your change, addressed by `pipeline_id` (the list's `id` value). Never send it as `id` — that slot is the WS request id. A partial payload drops settings.
- delete: WS `assist_pipeline/pipeline/delete` — typed confirmation code; a pipeline in use by a satellite breaks it
3. **Exposed entities** (what voice can even see): WS `homeassistant/expose_entity/list`; expose or hide with WS `homeassistant/expose_entity` (`assistants: ["conversation"]`, `entity_ids`, `should_expose`). Aliases live in the entity registry (`ha-nova:organize` owns those).
- Exposing an entity gives voice control over it — preview the list before changing it.
- Risk-weight the preview: exposing a `lock`, `alarm_control_panel`, or a cover with a garage/gate/door `device_class` means anyone within earshot can actuate physical access by voice — flag these entities explicitly as high-consequence before confirming.
4. **Engines**: WS `tts/engine/list`, `stt/engine/list`, `conversation/agent/list`, `wake_word/info`. Read-only inventories; use them to explain what a pipeline can be built from.
5. Verify pipeline changes by re-reading the pipeline list, and exposure changes by re-reading `expose_entity/list` — never report success from the command response alone. After a pipeline or exposure change made to FIX an utterance, offer to re-run that exact utterance as the proof (with the standing warning that a test utterance executes what it understands).

## Custom Sentences

Teach Assist a phrase it does not understand out of the box. This skill owns the workflow; the file paths, payload mechanics, and search query live in `skills/fallback/relay-ready.md` → Assist Custom Sentences — read that section first, do not duplicate it here.

1. **Opt-in gate**: sentence files need the relay's opt-in file access (`ha-nova:yaml-config` → Bootstrap explains enabling it). Without it, stop and say so.
2. **Write** the sentence file (and, only when the intent is new, the `intent_script:` block in `configuration.yaml`) per the fallback section's mechanics — `backup: true`, read the whole file before replacing it.
3. **Validate BEFORE any reload**: when `configuration.yaml` changed, `POST /api/config/core/check_config` FIRST. On `invalid`, restore that file's `.bak` immediately and do not reload.
4. **Reload the right thing**: `conversation.reload` reloads the sentence matcher — enough when only sentence files changed. A handler in an existing `intent_script:` block reloads via `intent_script.reload` — a new intent changed BOTH files, so run `conversation.reload` too; only the FIRST-ever top-level `intent_script:` block takes a Home Assistant restart (the integration is not yet set up). Say which applies; no phrase test before.
5. **Live test is mandatory**: run the exact phrase through `POST /api/conversation/process` (Flow step 1 rules — a test utterance executes what it matches). A sentence file that parses is not a sentence Assist matched; never claim success without this test.
6. **Rollback distinguishes reload from restart**: a failed phrase test after a sentence-file change → restore the `.bak` (or delete the new file), `conversation.reload` again, re-test one known-good phrase. A rolled-back `intent_script` drops its stale handler with `intent_script.reload`; if the block never loaded (first-block), the restore alone suffices.

## Error Handling

Full relay/upstream error taxonomy: `skills/ha-nova/relay-api.md` -> Error Handling. Assist specifics:
- `assist_pipeline/run` is NOT usable here: it is a streaming subscription (audio), and the relay is request/response. Testing an utterance goes through `/api/conversation/process` instead.
- An unknown WS command usually means an older Home Assistant — say which version introduced it rather than guessing a workaround.
- A conversation response of "Sorry, I couldn't understand that" is a real answer, not an error: it means the intent did not match. Report what Assist actually said.

## Output Format

Apply `skills/ha-nova/output-rules.md` to all user-facing output. Write previews, delete confirmations, and results render as the Cards defined there.

## Safety

- Preview before write: nothing is saved until the user confirms the shown preview.
- Confirmation binds to the displayed preview and expires on any change to target, payload, endpoint, or scope (context skill → Active Preview Confirmation).
- Pre-preview phrases ("do it", "go ahead", "implement the plan") authorize drafting and preview only — never the write itself.
- Delete and destructive operations require the typed confirmation code `confirm:<token>` verbatim; "yes" or any natural-language reply is invalid.
- Never guess entity, service, or config IDs — resolve them or ask.
- Home Assistant is reached exclusively through `ha-nova relay`.
- For any HA write this skill does not cover, STOP and invoke `ha-nova:fallback` first — never probe unfamiliar write endpoints.

- Drafts follow `skills/ha-nova/smallest-solution.md`: the complete requested outcome in the simplest safe design, nothing for hypothetical future needs.

- **A test utterance is a live command.** `conversation/process` executes what it understands. Anything that could change state gets a preview and confirmation, exactly like a service call.
- An utterance is the least enumerable indirect actuation there is: what it reaches is decided by the conversation agent at runtime. When the utterance plausibly reaches a lock, alarm panel, or access cover — the words themselves, or the exposed entity set makes it reachable — it takes the typed `confirm:<token>` (context skill → Confirmation Tiers), including the re-run proof after an exposure fix.
- Exposing entities to voice grants voice control over them — show the full list before changing exposure.
- Pipeline updates resend every settings field: read first, or you silently drop settings.
- No change here has a `revert`: restore exposure by re-toggling, restore a pipeline by resending its prior fields. A deleted pipeline recreates with a new `pipeline_id` — satellites pointing at the old one must be re-pointed.

## Guardrails

- One pipeline or one exposure change per operation.
- Never invent `pipeline_id` or `agent_id` values — list them first.
- Never claim Assist "understood" something the response does not show.

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