Official documentation
Building the AI-powered local smart home
Home Assistant project, Home Assistant blog, 2025
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- The September 2025 Home Assistant blog post on how Assist and language model agents share the work, with the default that Assist handles commands before any AI agent sees them.
- How much weight it carries
- The project's own account of its default behaviour in September 2025. The behaviour can be changed in each assistant's settings, so check your own configuration.
Facts taken from this source
- Home Assistant says Assist handles commands first by default, and only sends questions or commands it does not understand to the AI you have set up.
“By default, Assist will handle commands first. Only questions or commands it can’t understand will be sent to the AI you’ve set up.” (AI in Home Assistant)
Pages that rest on this source
- Home Assistant Voice: Speech to Text and Voice CommandsGuide
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- How do you set up voice commands in Home Assistant?Question
- What is the best voice commands assistant app?Question
- What voice commands does Home Assistant understand?Question
- Intent recognitionGlossary