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school-terms-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/school-terms-nz@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/school-terms-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261008.1dd7e68, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 3, 2026
Size: 6,132 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Look up official New Zealand school term and holiday dates, identify the term or break covering a date, find the next school break, and summarise published school years with Ministry of Education caveats.

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

# School Terms NZ

## Goal

Query the Ministry of Education's current public school terms and holidays page with a bounded, read-only, standard-library Python CLI.

## Use This When

- A user asks for official New Zealand school term or school holiday dates.
- A workflow needs to identify the published term or break covering a date.
- A user wants the current or next published school break from a date.
- A user needs the current or past years published by the Ministry, with source provenance.

## Do Not Use This For

- An individual school's exact opening, closing, teacher-only or local-event dates.
- Early childhood service or private-school calendars, which may set their own dates.
- Public-holiday entitlement advice or local anniversary dates.
- Historical dates outside the past-year sections currently published on the source page.

## Preferred Workflow

1. List the Ministry's complete current and past published years:

   ```bash
   python3 skills/school-terms-nz/scripts/cli.py years --json
   ```

2. Inspect one complete published year:

   ```bash
   python3 skills/school-terms-nz/scripts/cli.py year 2026 --json
   ```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/school-terms-nz@sha256:00a4c9f5077caad6

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

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 3, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 34 days.

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git:20261008.1dd7e68 latest	2026-10-08	1dd7e68	6,132 B	A	view · diff
git:20260903.96f6ffd	2026-09-03	96f6ffd	6,073 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_inpgnnhq6yoe6ak4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/school-terms-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/00a4c9f5077caad6ffd40c2fb1aecfef86f46b57e637e1272462043f518c27c8

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