Reconfigure Home Assistant lighting automations
Real-world thread: someone prompted an AI to edit Home Assistant automations so any signal turning on the house's bright white LED spots would instead kill those and activate the diffuse indirect light strips instead. The AI also added rules turning all lights off at 10pm, with color ones switching to red only. The house now uses the softer glow lights by default and shifts to full red at night.
- Agent or tool
- Custom agent
- Topic
- Personal Assistant
- Reported on
- X
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
This is the classic promise of AI agents: a helper that handles errands and reminders on your behalf. Real cases like this show how close that promise is today. It is one of 50 sightings filed under Personal Assistant on Agent Sightings (number 4 by interest), and one of 182 involving Custom agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into your own agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Assistant mode: reconfigure Home Assistant lighting automations. Log every action, prefer reversible steps, and ask before emailing, paying, or deleting.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on X: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2046960170643689706. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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