three.ws Home

io.github.nirholas/home-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 256 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-09-30
Health score 74

About three.ws Home

three.ws Home is an MCP server published by the GitHub account nirholas. Read and safely act on a real Home Assistant house: rooms, live state, scenes, gated actions.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @three-ws/home-mcp at version 0.1.0.

It asks for one secret: HOME_ASSISTANT_TOKEN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs HOME_ASSISTANT_URL set before it starts.

Version 0.1.0 was published on 30 September 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`HOME_ASSISTANT_URL`	Yes	No	Base URL of the Home Assistant instance, e.g. https://abc123.ui.nabu.casa. It has to be a URL this process can actually reach: a server outside the house cannot route to 192.168.x.x, so a LAN-only home needs Home Assistant Cloud or the household's own reverse proxy.
`HOME_ASSISTANT_TOKEN`	Yes	Yes	A Home Assistant long-lived access token (Home Assistant, your profile, Security, Long-lived access tokens, Create token). It carries the full rights of the account that minted it, so mint it from an account with only the access this agent should have.
`HOME_ALLOWED_ENTITIES`	No	No	Comma-separated entity ids the person running this server has pre-approved for guarded actions, e.g. lock.office_door. This is the ONLY way an action that opens the house runs over stdio, and it is deliberately a human, out-of-band decision: no tool can add to it. Per entity, never per domain. Leave unset to refuse every such action.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/nirholas/three.ws
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: HOME_ASSISTANT_TOKEN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account nirholas
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@three-ws/home-mcp@0.1.0 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 11 files in @three-ws/home-mcp@0.1.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 11 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 74 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity17 / 40

262 GitHub stars, 34 downloads last week, 0 Hacker News posts (0 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-28, last release 2026-10-11, 7,107 commits in 90 days.

Issue health12 / 15

27 closed of 33 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

69 forks, 233 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.nirholas/home-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account nirholas
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account nirholas. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `@three-ws/home-mcp` 0.1.0 (stdio)
Version	0.1.0
Published	2026-09-30
Last updated	2026-09-30
Source repository	https://github.com/nirholas/three.ws
Website	https://three.ws
Category	Other (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "home-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@three-ws/home-mcp@0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HOME_ASSISTANT_URL": "<your value>",
        "HOME_ASSISTANT_TOKEN": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

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