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A Home Assistant review by Claude Code, and the deletions it tried

Claude Code reviewed a Home Assistant setup through MCP and fixed many issues, but also tried to remove devices and integrations it wrongly thought were unused.

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What went wrong

The lesson

Keep Claude from making write changes to a working Home Assistant install without approval, as it may try to delete things it wrongly thinks are unused.

The full story

With Claude Code connected to Home Assistant through an MCP server, the owner had it review the whole setup and write its findings to an HTML file they could go through together. Claude fixed many issues on its own, moved a light strip over to Matter over Wi-Fi, and built a proper dashboard from a rough description.

It also tried to remove areas, devices and integrations it thought were unused. Because the owner had not allowed automatic write operations, they caught these and refused them, and warn: "Do not let Claude just run against a working HA instance, it might wreck it!"

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Sources

From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.

  • Reddit: Use AI to improve your HA setup: A few inspirationsForum threadDeleted on Redditreddit.com

    The maker's post on r/homeassistant.

    The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: Use AI to improve your HA setup: A few inspirations (opens in a new tab)

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