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nz-data-catalogue 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-data-catalogue@git:20261008.dfe58ed

Pins git:20261008.dfe58ed 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-data-catalogue/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261008.dfe58ed, committed Oct 8, 2026
Size: 40,525 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Search the assessed NZ and Auckland public-data source catalogue by topic, hackathon problem, owner, access or grade, then route to a fetching skill. Use to discover suitable datasets and inspect endpoint availability.

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 data catalogue

Look up data sources here first, then fetch with a mapped skill. This is the
assessed Auckland CivicTech Hackathon catalogue, seeded from the v4 JSON export
for 16 October 2026. It includes NZ sources, global resources and overseas
examples; inspect `scope`, `access`, `agent_check`, `not_data` and `caveat` before
recommending a source. The bundled snapshot is not a live completeness claim.

## Workflow

1. Search a topic or filter by a problem tag. Use `get` to inspect a candidate's
   licence, caveats, endpoint and stated latest data.
2. Inspect `fetch_skills`: `existing` means present in the seed repo; `planned`
   names an engine being built in parallel. Check availability before invoking.
   `exact` maps the source surface, `related` provides a supported equivalent or
   narrower dataset, and `catalogue` offers metadata discovery. Read any note.
3. Fetch with the mapped skill's documented commands. Some existing skills,
   including `at-transport`, require a user-supplied key; this index is keyless
   and reads no credentials. Empty `fetch_skills` means no known mapping.
4. Use `check` if a live availability probe helps. A reachable page or download
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-data-catalogue@sha256:dd238008787565cc

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.dfe58ed, 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_jo2sngxyftzjiucu.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jo2sngxyftzjiucu)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 8, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261008.dfe58ed latest	2026-10-08	dfe58ed	40,525 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 (40525 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_jo2sngxyftzjiucu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-data-catalogue
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dd238008787565cce084967ac5ebedd23336eb6b9335113f4434ea2753427b2f

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.