Product

Home Assistant

by Open Home Foundation

Product website
https://www.home-assistant.io/
Categories
Smart home control

Description

Home automation software for controlling connected devices.

AI-native score

How ready this product is for agents to use, on a 0–100 scale across four weighted dimensions. Security is one of them, so a high score is not a substitute for your own security or vendor-risk review. How is this scored?

Unrated. Only 35% of the scored decision fields are researched, so the grade is held until more are confirmed. The breakdown below shows what's been scored.

Integration1/10Trust0/6Portability4/4Security1/4Tier D27/100
Component Raw Weight Contribution
Integration 1/10 35% 3.5
Trust 0/6 30% 0.0
Portability 4/4 20% 20.0
Security 1/4 15% 3.8
Signals that fired
  • Integration: Command-line interface (+1)
  • Portability: Open standards (+1) ; Standard protocol access (+1) ; No proprietary-SDK lock-in (+1) ; Self-hostable (+1) ; Open source (+1)
  • Security: MFA available (+1)
Signals not researched

These gaps cover the fields used in the AI-native score.

  • Integration surfaces: llms.txt, Headless signup, MCP servers, Native connectors, API specs, Agent skills, Developer kits
  • Trust & data policy: Trust center, Zero data retention, No generative AI training, Hard budget caps, Sandbox environment, Data export, Data import, Documented provider swap
  • Security & compliance: Compliance certifications, Access controls

Trust & data policy

Multi-factor authentication
Available
Open standards
Yes
Standard protocol access
Yes
No proprietary-SDK lock-in
Yes
Self-hostable
Yes
Open source
Yes

Not yet researched Trust center, Zero data retention, No generative AI training, Hard budget caps, Sandbox environment, Data export, Data import, Documented provider swap

What it does

Jobs to be done

From cited vendor documentation, each completion verdict says whether an agent can deliver the job's main outcome by and large through this product and which steps still need a person. Scope may limit cases or prerequisites while preserving that outcome. It's a separate axis from the AI-native score. Expand a job for the human steps, delegation, and scope. An unknown verdict means the answer is not yet established.

  • Automate household devices Finishes, delegation unknown

    Control connected devices and run home routines.

    Completion detail · via API
    Setup needs a human
    Unknown
    Per-task human step
    Unknown
    On behalf of a principal
    Unknown

    An authorized API caller controls configured connected household devices and runs configured home routines by invoking registered Home Assistant actions through the REST API, including scripts that perform a sequence of device actions.

    Conditions: Requires a reachable Home Assistant installation with the API integration loaded, an access token for a user authorized for the requested actions, and configured integrations, devices and valid scripts for those actions. Script execution follows its configured single, restart, queued or parallel mode and concurrency limit; queued and parallel scripts default to a maximum of 10 running or waiting runs. Script state can be read to track whether it is running. This route covers actions and routines available on that installation.

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Integration surfaces

How an agent connects to this product and finds its documentation. The largest dimension of the AI-native score (35%).

WebMCP
No

Command-line interfaces

Confirmed absent Agent2Agent (A2A) servers

Not yet researched llms.txt, Headless signup, MCP servers, Native connectors, API specs, Agent skills, Developer kits

Offers

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Unrated · 35% researched. Grade withheld until more fields are verified.

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