New automation setup failed on 2025.1.2

Configuration
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I recently encountered this issue in version 2025.12.2.

In my case, I have automations in a /config/automations folder, and in my configuration.yaml I include:

automation: !include_dir_merge_list automations/

I still kept an empty automations.yaml file in the /config directory which is where the automation that I created in the GUI saved itself.

To get home assistant to look in both locations, I updated the configuration.yaml to the following:

automation manual: !include automations.yaml
automation: !include_dir_merge_list automations/

Not sure if this is best practice, but it worked for me!

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That’s always been required. Are you sure you didn’t modify your config accidentally ?

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For anyone coming across this later… my scripts were in a file named script.yaml and my configuration was pointing to it correctly. Unfortunately, at some point HA now only inserts scripts into scripts.yaml! I merged the files and renamed it in my configuration file and all is working. I deleted the old script.yaml file.

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same problem . any advice

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Did you read the advice in the thread?