Reaching beyond entity_id, name and state in the prompt

[tomekwl]

I have an entity of a type water_hater. Currently with the example prompt the assistant is only aware of its state (in my example on or off). How can I make it aware and read more of the properties / attributes this type of entity carries? For example there is current_temperature.

[josh-blake]

I use a spec function call to expose attributes to OpenAI on demand; I don’t need all attributes from every object exposed in my prompt (this consumes way too many tokens for generally unneeded information). Make sure your prompt exposes entities by listing an entity_id or modify the spec function to use whichever variable name you care to refer to your entities by.

- spec:
    name: get_attributes
    description: Get attributes of entity or multiple entities.
    parameters:
      type: object
      properties:
        entity_id:
          type: array
          description: entity_id of entity or multiple entities
          items:
            type: string
      required:
      - entity_id
  function:
    type: template
    value_template: >-
      ```csv
      entity,attributes
      {%for entity in entity_id%}
      {{entity}},{{states[entity].attributes}}
      {%endfor%}
      ```