Report · marked 26 Aug 2026
home-assistant/core
Solid foundations, held back in a few specific places.
Python · 90,108 stars · 27,342 files · branch dev
76
/100
B+
Instructions
24/27Whether the repo tells an agent how to behave before it starts guessing. Losing marks on instruction quality and readme as an entry point.Setup
13/20Whether an agent can install the project and get it running without a human. Losing marks on deterministic install and environment config.Verification loop
24/25Whether an agent can check its own work. This is the category that most decides whether agent output is trustworthy. Losing marks on static type checking.Context economy
9/20Whether the repo fits in a context window, or fights it. Losing marks on file sizes fit in context and repository weight.Navigability
8/10How quickly anything new can orient itself. Losing marks on written documentation.
Higher is better. Accent marks what is costing you most.
Fix these first
01
File sizes fit in context
A single file that fills the context window forces an agent to work from fragments, and it will confidently edit code it never saw. Splitting the worst offenders pays for itself immediately.
02
Environment config
Add a .env.example listing every variable with a safe placeholder value. It's the cheapest possible fix and it unblocks the whole first run.
03
Deterministic install
Commit the lockfile your package manager generates. Without it, an agent's install and your install are different builds, and 'works on my machine' becomes unfalsifiable.
The full marking
Every deduction below names the file or setting it came from.
Instructions 24/27 A
Whether the repo tells an agent how to behave before it starts guessing.
✓Agent instruction file
12/12
AGENTS.md is present, which is the format the most tools read.
Also found: CLAUDE.md, Copilot instructions
✗Instruction quality
10/12
Specific enough that an agent can act on it.
Worth fixing: has no code blocks.
5,551 characters, a workable length
names the actual commands to run
uses headings, so an agent can skim it
✗README as an entry point
2/3
README exists but never explains how to get the thing running.
Give the README an Install and a Usage heading with real commands under each. Agents pattern-match on those headings.
Setup 13/20 B
Whether an agent can install the project and get it running without a human.
✗Deterministic install
3/6
Only requirements.txt, which pins loosely at best.
Commit the lockfile your package manager generates. Without it, an agent's install and your install are different builds, and 'works on my machine' becomes unfalsifiable.
✓Discoverable commands
6/6
Commands are declared where an agent will look for them.
pyproject.toml scripts
✗Environment config
0/4
Nothing documents the environment this needs. An agent will get a runtime error it can't diagnose.
Add a .env.example listing every variable with a safe placeholder value. It's the cheapest possible fix and it unblocks the whole first run.
✓Pinned runtime version
2/2
The language runtime version is pinned.
Found .python-version
✓Reproducible environment
2/2
.devcontainer/devcontainer.json gives a known-good environment.
Verification loop 24/25 A+
Whether an agent can check its own work. This is the category that most decides whether agent output is trustworthy.
✓Tests exist
8/8
12890 test files against 18389 source files.
e.g. homeassistant/components/assist_satellite/connection_test.py, pylint/plugins/pylint_home_assistant/checkers/quality_scale/test_before_configure.py, pylint/plugins/pylint_home_assistant/checkers/test_determinism.py
✓Test command is discoverable
7/7
An agent can find and run `pytest`.
✓Continuous integration
4/4
13 GitHub Actions workflows define what "passing" means.
✓Lint and format rules
3/3
pyproject.toml encodes the house style.
✗Static type checking
2/3
Type checking is configured, but not in strict mode.
A type checker gives an agent an error message instead of a runtime surprise. It's the second-fastest feedback loop after the compiler.
Context economy 9/20 C
Whether the repo fits in a context window, or fights it.
✓No committed build output
6/6
No generated directories committed.
✓.gitignore hygiene
3/3
.gitignore covers 93 patterns.
✗File sizes fit in context
0/6
50 source files are over 100KB.
A single file that fills the context window forces an agent to work from fragments, and it will confidently edit code it never saw. Splitting the worst offenders pays for itself immediately.
tests/helpers/test_device_registry.py — 466KB
tests/test_config_entries.py — 359KB
tests/helpers/test_script.py — 244KB
✗Repository weight
0/5
About 870MB checked out. Large enough that cloning and searching are both slow.
Large binaries and vendored trees slow every operation an agent performs. Git LFS or a separate assets repo keeps the working tree navigable.
Here is your AGENTS.md
Drafted from what is actually in this repository: the install
command from your lockfile, the commands you already declare, your real directory layout. Anything
marked TODO needs a person. Save it at the root as AGENTS.md.
# AGENTS.md :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. ## Setup ``` pip install -r requirements.txt ``` ## Commands ``` pytest # run the test suite ruff check . # lint ``` ## Layout - `homeassistant/` 9974 source files - `tests/` 8213 source files - `script/` 131 source files - `pylint/` 67 source files - `mypy_plugins/` 2 source files ## Conventions - Tests live alongside the code they cover, following `homeassistant/components/assist_satellite/connection_test.py`. - CI defines what passing means. See `.github/workflows/builder.yml`, and keep it green. - TODO: add the two or three conventions a newcomer always gets wrong here. ## Gotchas - `tests/helpers/test_device_registry.py` is 466KB. It will not fit comfortably in context, so read it in parts. - No lockfile is committed, so an install here may not match what CI produced. --- Drafted by agentreadme.com from what is in this repository. Everything marked TODO needs a human. Check it in as AGENTS.md at the root.
Open the raw markdown
or
curl -o AGENTS.md agentreadme.com/draft/home-assistant/core.md
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