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public-housing-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/public-housing-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/public-housing-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260719.1748a98, committed Jul 19, 2026
First version recorded: May 31, 2026
Size: 6,468 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query New Zealand public and social housing open data from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on data.govt.nz — public housing stock (Kainga Ora and community housing providers), social housing IRRS and market-rent tenancies, accommodation supplement recipients and weekly spend, and the Local Housing Statistics dashboard (housing affordability, rent burden, bonds, building consents, MSD benefit numbers, and the year-on-year change in the public/social housing register). Use…

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

# Public Housing NZ

## Overview

Read-only stdlib CLI over the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
open-data releases published on data.govt.nz (CKAN at `catalogue.data.govt.nz`).
Every command supports `--json` for machine-readable output and a human-readable
default. No login, API key, browser automation, or cache state.

Covered data:

- Public housing stock by territorial authority and provider (Kainga Ora / CHP)
- Social housing tenancies (Income-Related Rent Subsidy + market rent) by TLA
- Accommodation Supplement recipients and total weekly spend by area
- Local Housing Statistics dashboard: affordability, rent burden, bonds,
  building consents, sales, census crowding, MSD figures, population, and the
  1-year change in the Housing Register
- CKAN catalogue discovery and server-side DataStore filtering

## When to Use

- A user asks about NZ public/social housing stock, Kainga Ora, or CHP homes
- A user wants social housing tenancy counts (IRRS + market rent) by district
- A user asks about the Accommodation Supplement (recipients, weekly cost)
- A user asks about housing affordability, rent burden, or the change in the
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/public-housing-nz@sha256:3777e1ac961c8c9f

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_a3iy3cga65awwuh2.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_a3iy3cga65awwuh2)

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	6,468 B	A	view · diff
git:20260531.8c658db	2026-05-31	8c658db	5,693 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 (6468 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_a3iy3cga65awwuh2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/public-housing-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3777e1ac961c8c9f40288bb775e0307f133b1009c4ed2fdcbbac6d51ed549cea

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