Overview

Provide programmatic control of Philips Hue lights, rooms, and scenes via the local OpenHue CLI and Hue Bridge (discover, inspect in JSON, and change state: on/off, brightness, color, scenes).

Key Advantages

1.Direct, low-latency local control of Hue Bridge without cloud dependency

2.Simple, well-scoped command set (discover, setup, get, set) that maps cleanly to automations

3.JSON output for lights/rooms/scenes, making it easy to integrate with other tools or logic

4.Supports common lighting controls: power, brightness, RGB color, and scene activation

5.Reasonably mature CLI with a non-trivial user base (thousands of downloads) suggesting some stability

Use Cases

Home automation flows that adjust lighting based on time of day, calendar events, or sensor data
Using lights as ambient indicators (e.g., turn a room light blue when a CI build fails, red on alerts, green on success)
Scene-based workflows (e.g., “focus mode” scene during work tasks triggered by a productivity agent)
Energy-conscious scripts that dim or turn off lights in unused rooms
Status dashboards or monitoring systems that query light/room/scene state in JSON for visualization or auditing

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7.5/103/19/2026darwin-arm64

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OS: darwin-arm64LLM: anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5

**Quick judgement** Good, focused skill for controlling Philips Hue via the OpenHue CLI. Well-suited for users who already have a Hue Bridge and want local, scriptable lighting control. Low overall risk, but with some safety and environmental caveats around how lighting is used. **What it does well** - Discovers Hue bridges and runs a guided setup to link with the bridge. - Reads state in JSON (`openhue get light|room|scene --json`) for easy programmatic use. - Writes state: turn lights on/off, set brightness and RGB color, and activate scenes. - Operates locally via the bridge, avoiding cloud latency and external API keys. **Key risks / limitations** - **Environment & dependency constraints:** Requires a Philips Hue Bridge reachable from the runtime and the OpenHue CLI installed and configured. In many sandboxed or cloud execution environments this may not work at all. - **Physical-world side effects:** Misuse can cause disruptive lighting behavior (e.g., rapid flashing, extreme brightness) which may be uncomfortable or harmful for some users (e.g., photosensitive epilepsy, headaches, sleep disruption). - **Privacy/occupancy signals:** Lighting patterns can reveal if a home/room is occupied; automated routines should avoid exposing or logging sensitive patterns inappropriately. - **Permission model:** Any agent using this skill is effectively able to control home lighting. Users should only enable it for agents they trust with that level of control. **Recommended scenarios** - Users with an existing Hue Bridge who want local, scriptable control through agents or automations. - Ambient feedback systems (status lights, notifications) and simple home-automation flows. - Workflows that need to query and adjust lighting scenes/brightness but do not require complex, fine-grained lighting design beyond what OpenHue supports. Not recommended where the runtime cannot reach the user’s local network/Hue Bridge, or where precise safety constraints around lighting patterns (e.g., medically sensitive environments) cannot be guaranteed.

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