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msd-benefits-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/msd-benefits-nz@git:20260719.1748a98

Pins git:20260719.1748a98 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/msd-benefits-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260719.1748a98, committed Jul 19, 2026
First version recorded: May 31, 2026
Size: 5,621 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query official New Zealand MSD benefit statistics - Jobseeker Support, Sole Parent Support, Supported Living Payment, Youth Payment, NZ Superannuation and Veteran's Pension recipient numbers by quarter, gender, ethnicity, age group, and Work and Income region. Use for working-age benefit numbers, main benefit counts, welfare/superannuation recipient breakdowns, and benefit trends. No API key or browser session required.

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

# MSD Benefits NZ

## Overview

Query official Ministry of Social Development (MSD) quarterly benefit statistics through a small deterministic CLI with human-readable and JSON output, without browser automation, login, API keys, or local cache state.

This skill wires three public MSD CSV releases:

- National main-benefit recipient counts (Jobseeker Support, Sole Parent Support, Supported Living Payment, Youth Payment and Young Parent Payment, Other Main Benefits)
- NZ Superannuation and Veteran's Pension recipient counts
- Work and Income region-level main-benefit counts

Each supports breakdowns by gender, ethnicity, age group, and (region CSV) MSD service region, plus a multi-quarter trend.

**Important:** these CSVs are the **December 2019 "benefit fact sheets" release** - a frozen historical series. The latest quarter present is `Dec_19` (quarters run `Dec_14` through `Dec_19`). Treat output as a stable historical reference set, not a live current-quarter feed. See `references/api-notes.md`.

## When to Use

- A user asks for New Zealand benefit numbers, main benefit recipient counts, or welfare statistics
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/msd-benefits-nz@sha256:1e8ca392f7d29711

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260719.1748a98, 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_6f5ajq65ylzedldz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6f5ajq65ylzedldz)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 31, 2026 and Jul 19, 2026, about one every 49 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260719.1748a98 latest	2026-07-19	1748a98	5,621 B	A	view · diff
git:20260531.8c658db	2026-05-31	8c658db	4,850 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 (5621 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_6f5ajq65ylzedldz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/msd-benefits-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1e8ca392f7d29711b481a62e6b559022f6af15baf02aa133124dca27c8dec68f

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