elections-nz SKILL.md skillA

elections-nz from thecolab-ai/.skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/elections-nz@git:20260912.bfe656a

Pins git:20260912.bfe656a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: thecolab-ai/.skills
Path: skills/elections-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260912.bfe656a, committed Sep 12, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 19, 2026
Size: 4,038 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query official New Zealand election results, electorate voting, turnout, aggregate party political finance and reporting rules from the Electoral Commission.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Elections NZ

Use the read-only Python CLI to retrieve and filter records exposed by the official first-party source.
Every command supports `--json`, bounded requests, stable exit codes, source URLs and retrieval timestamps.

## Commands

```bash
# discover election results
python3 scripts/cli.py results --year VALUE --json
# discover electorate results
python3 scripts/cli.py electorate NAME --year VALUE --json
# discover party-vote results
python3 scripts/cli.py party-vote --year VALUE --json
# discover turnout series
python3 scripts/cli.py turnout --year VALUE --json
# discover candidate results
python3 scripts/cli.py candidate NAME --year VALUE --json
# discover party donation returns
python3 scripts/cli.py donations --party VALUE --json
# discover candidate expense returns
python3 scripts/cli.py expenses --candidate VALUE --json
# query Commission-published annual donation/loan aggregates (optional party filter)
python3 scripts/cli.py finance-aggregates [PARTY] --kind annual --year 2025 --json
# query Commission-published election-expense aggregates
python3 scripts/cli.py finance-aggregates [PARTY] --kind expenses --year 2023 --json
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/elections-nz@sha256:4cbc59494033985d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.bfe656a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_532idh2bl4eaqrlv.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_532idh2bl4eaqrlv)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Sep 12, 2026, about one every 55 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260912.bfe656a latest	2026-09-12	bfe656a	4,038 B	A	view · diff
git:20260719.89b10f6	2026-07-19	89b10f6	2,884 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4038 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

thecolab-ai/.skills · 33 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_532idh2bl4eaqrlv
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/elections-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4cbc59494033985dfc481c2a99312dd3ca1478322e6ab1901117b3ba1a31971c

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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