Get the current state of a specific Home Assistant entity, including state value, attributes, and timestamp information
AI agents call tools-entities-state to retrieve information from Home Assistant MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries the current state of a Home Assistant entity. The use of 'Get' in the description clearly indicates a read-only operation that returns state information, attributes, and timestamps. There are no side effects, modifications, deletions, or external operations triggered.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'tools-entities-state' and description 'Get the current state of a specific Home Assistant entity, including state value, attributes, and timestamp information' indicate retrieval of entity state data without modification.
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Get the current state of a specific Home Assistant entity, including state value, attributes, and timestamp information. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Home Assistant MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Home Assistant MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for tools-entities-state: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Home Assistant MCP Server. Nothing to install.
tools-entities-state is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the tools-entities-state rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for tools-entities-state. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
tools-entities-state is provided by the Home Assistant MCP Server MCP server (oleander/home-assistant-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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