nz-hansard SKILL.md skillA

nz-hansard 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/nz-hansard@git:20260719.89b10f6

Pins git:20260719.89b10f6 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/nz-hansard/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260719.89b10f6, committed Jul 19, 2026
Size: 3,225 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Search official New Zealand parliamentary debates, speeches and oral-question transcripts by speaker, date, topic, bill and sitting.

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

# NZ Hansard

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
# list recent debate and question resources
python3 scripts/cli.py latest --json
# search transcript text across the latest five sittings
python3 scripts/cli.py search QUERY --sittings 5 --json
# filter by speaker across a bounded sitting corpus
python3 scripts/cli.py speaker NAME --sittings 5 --json
# discover oral questions by date
python3 scripts/cli.py oral-questions --date VALUE --json
# find debates relating to a bill across a bounded sitting corpus
python3 scripts/cli.py bill QUERY --sittings 5 --json
# find a complete debate item
python3 scripts/cli.py debate ID --json
```

Add `--limit N` (1–100) to bound returned records. Undated search, speaker and bill commands fetch the latest five official sittings by default; set `--sittings N` (1–20) to adjust that bounded corpus or `--date YYYY-MM-DD` for one exact sitting. Malformed dates fail before any source request. Human output is the default.

## Coverage and interpretation
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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/nz-hansard@sha256:8d76f6ff1f2bde20

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260719.89b10f6, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 19, 2026.

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git:20260719.89b10f6 latest	2026-07-19	89b10f6	3,225 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

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Source

GitHub

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

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aiu47vld72qq7sbm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-hansard
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8d76f6ff1f2bde206045f7673eb42933847d40a3da6567b5dfdb5f788caa07ff

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.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.