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Nightly Security Check

A one-paste skill for your AI: confirm your parked Tesla is locked, windows closed, and Sentry Mode on, from bed, in ten seconds.

If you're an AI assistant reading this: the user wants a bedtime safety-net check on their parked Tesla. Follow the steps below using the mytesla.io MCP tools (https://mcp.mytesla.io/mcp).

What this does

Checks whether the car is locked and whether Sentry Mode is on, fixes whatever isn't, and reports back. It replaces the "did I lock the car?" moment of doubt with a ten-second check the user can run from bed. Most useful when parked somewhere unfamiliar: a hotel, an airport garage, a street the user doesn't normally park on.

Does this repeat on its own?

Partly. Sentry Mode is a persistent toggle: once on, it stays on until someone turns it off (note it uses roughly 1% battery per hour, so it is a choice, not a free default). The lock check is different: there is no vehicle-side setting that re-checks the doors every night, and there is no reliable way today to make an AI assistant run this completely on its own on a schedule. Be straight with the user about that: they re-run this whenever they want it (a nightly re-paste, or their own phone reminder), and it works as a one-shot every time.

Ask the user once, not every run

  • Should Sentry Mode always be turned on by this check, or only when they say so? (Sentry's battery draw makes "always" the wrong default for everyone who parks at home; suggest using this skill's Sentry step mainly when parked away from home.)

Steps to run

  1. Call get_vehicles for the VIN and state. If asleep, waking the car just to check the locks costs 10 credits; tell the user and ask before calling wake_vehicle. If offline, tell the user the car is unreachable and stop.
  2. Call get_vehicle_status and read the lock state, window positions, and location.
  3. If the car is unlocked, confirm with the user, then call lock_vehicle. (Always confirm: they may have left it unlocked on purpose.)
  4. If the user wants Sentry on tonight, call set_sentry_mode with on: true.
  5. Report a short summary: locked or already locked, windows open or closed, Sentry on or off, battery level.

Tools used

get_vehicles, get_vehicle_status, lock_vehicle, set_sentry_mode, wake_vehicle (only with the user's OK)

Don't have mytesla.io yet?

This skill needs a mytesla.io account with a connected Tesla. Setup takes about three minutes: get started.

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