nz-ministers SKILL.md skillA

nz-ministers 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-ministers@git:20261008.1dd7e68

Pins git:20261008.1dd7e68 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-ministers/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 4
Latest version: git:20261008.1dd7e68, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 5, 2026
Size: 4,908 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query New Zealand government ministers, their portfolios, and their press releases from beehive.govt.nz. Use when the task involves NZ ministers, who holds a portfolio (health, finance, energy, etc.), a minister's bio, or all the releases/speeches by a given minister, plus the latest government announcements. The latest-releases feed is keyless; per-minister data uses an optional --browser (CloakBrowser) bootstrap to clear bot protection, then cached cookies for plain HTTP. Read-only; no login…

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 Ministers

Query NZ government ministers, the portfolios they hold, and the press releases /
speeches attributed to them, from **beehive.govt.nz** (the official NZ Government
website). Read-only; no login, account, or API key.

## Use this when

- A user asks **who is the Minister of <X>**, or what portfolios a minister holds
- A user wants a **minister's profile** (roles, biography, latest diary, recent articles)
- A user wants a minister's **roles & responsibilities** (portfolios + position)
- A user wants **all articles by a minister** (releases, speeches, features)
- A user wants a minister's **diary / calendar** (latest published ministerial diary)
- A user wants the **latest government announcements** site-wide

## Do not use this for

- Drafting, editing, or sending anything (read-only)
- General NZ news — use the `nz-news` skill
- Parliamentary bills/Hansard, MP voting records, or electorate data
- Defeating CAPTCHAs or bot walls — challenges are treated as blocked states

## Commands

```bash
cli=skills/nz-ministers/scripts/cli.py

# Latest government releases/speeches — KEYLESS, no browser needed
python3 $cli latest --limit 10
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-ministers@sha256:8c2d351076040109

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.1dd7e68, 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_cjxtjvkfux64l7hy.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_cjxtjvkfux64l7hy)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 5, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 42 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261008.1dd7e68 latest	2026-10-08	1dd7e68	4,908 B	A	view · diff
git:20260719.1748a98	2026-07-19	1748a98	4,908 B	A	view · diff
git:20260605.b2f2585	2026-06-05	b2f2585	4,184 B	A	view · diff
git:20260605.dcebdba	2026-06-05	dcebdba	4,135 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 (4908 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_cjxtjvkfux64l7hy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-ministers
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c2d351076040109b08a4cd9431cb8cfdd3c3a1890ee23df32e0f55e1b8d3097

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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