An AI coding assistant working on your Home Assistant integration needs to know how config flows work. It can search the web, find a three-year-old forum post, and implement the API that was deprecated in 2023. Or it can read the actual docs.

The second option requires you to put the docs somewhere it can read them.

The Web Search Problem

AI assistants that can search the web will. And they’ll find things. Stack Overflow answers from HA 0.88. GitHub issues marked “fixed in core.” Medium posts from 2021 that are now quietly wrong about three things. The model doesn’t know which sources are authoritative; it doesn’t know what’s stale. It synthesises confidently from whatever it finds.