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Own minimal MCP server exposing the live state of the HA instances in
services/home-assistant/instances.yaml to Claude Code over stdio — the
phase-2 "MCP read-only" gate in services/home-assistant/DESIGN.md.
Operator decision 2026-07-30: build our own rather than adopt hass-mcp,
so the tools reuse scripts/ha/lib/{ha_api,ha_ws}.py (one token-handling
story for the whole HA toolchain) and can answer from the repo and from
instances.yaml, which a generic server cannot.
Seven tools, all read-only, default instance `ken`: list_entities,
get_state, get_areas, find_entities_by_description, read_automation,
list_automations, instance_status.
Read-only by construction, not by policy: REST goes through ha_api.Client
(get/get_raw_text only — no POST method exists), WebSocket commands are
checked against a three-entry *_list allowlist before being sent, and
read_automation reads services/home-assistant/config/<instance>/ rather
than /api/config. Tests assert all three, including a grep guard that
fails if requests.post/call_service ever appears in the package. The
write path stays repo + scripts/ha/deploy.sh.
Details that follow from how this instance actually behaves:
- unavailable is never silent — every entity view carries unavailable +
unavailable_since, every list a count. The 2026-07-23 audit traced ~15
silently dead automations to conditions sitting on dead sensors.
- chelsty-ha (status: offline in instances.yaml) is answered from the
file, never dialed — no 5s timeout for a known-offline LTE site.
- areas come from the WS registries (entity area_id > device area_id) with
a storage-export fallback; area_source/area_note say which was used and
what the offline export cannot resolve.
- PL->EN fuzzy matching, since the house is Polish and the entity_ids are
transliterated English: "czujnik temperatury salon" ->
sensor.thsalon_temperature, each hit explaining why it matched.
- 5s timeouts and errors returned as {"error": ...} inside a normal tool
result — a missing token or an unreachable instance never crashes the
server or hangs the agent.
Registered for Claude Code in the repo-root .mcp.json (new file) as `ha`,
via services/ha-mcp/run.sh (prefers the venv, falls back to system
python3). The mcp SDK lives in services/ha-mcp/.venv — rationale for venv
over --break-system-packages is in the README.
Tests: 42 offline (no network, no HA, no token) + a live read-only smoke
against ken — HA 2026.7.2, 1647 entities, 377 unavailable, 115
automations, 13 areas.
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| deploy_agent.py | ||
| ollama_client.py | ||
| README.md | ||
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| tech-debt.md | ||
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Homelab Codex
GitOps-lite orchestration for a distributed homelab environment.
Architecture
The homelab consists of several nodes connected via a Tailscale internal mesh.
| Host | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SATURN | Primary Node | Development, orchestration, and git source of truth (commit node). |
| SOLARIA | Compute Node | GPU, inference, and heavy compute workloads. |
| PIHA | Infra Node | Core infrastructure services, automation, and monitoring. |
| VPS | Edge Node | Public ingress, reverse proxy, and edge services. |
Agent System
The homelab uses a multi-agent orchestration model with human-in-the-loop for destructive actions:
| Agent | Node | Role |
|---|---|---|
| stability-agent | all nodes | Per-node watchdog — monitors Docker, disk, Tailscale, MQTT; emits events |
| node-agent | all nodes | Publishes container health events to Redis pub/sub |
| observer | VPS | Synthesizes world state from events into /opt/homelab/world/*.json |
| supervisor | VPS | Detects drift between desired and actual state; writes pending actions |
| planner-agent | SOLARIA | LLM-powered diagnosis — listens to Redis, proposes remediation actions |
| executor | VPS | Executes actions only after operator approval |
| operator-ui + telegram-bot | VPS / PIHA | Operator reviews and approves/rejects pending actions |
Action approval flow: pending/ → operator approves → approved/ → executor runs.
Repository Structure
docs/: Infrastructure Standards and Deployment Conventions.hosts/: Host-specific configurations and service assignments.services/: Reusable Docker Compose service definitions.scripts/: Deployment and management scripts.
Getting Started
- Standardization: Follow the Infrastructure Standards.
- Deployment: See Deployment Conventions for how to roll out changes.
- SATURN: Remember that SATURN is the only node where commits should be made.
Documentation Index
- Infrastructure Standards
- Agent Operating Procedures (For AI/Non-Human Agents)
- Deployment Conventions
- Hardware
- Networking
- Services
- Node Capabilities
- Action Model
Note: This repository documents the state of the homelab. Runtime state lives outside the repository in /opt/homelab.