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niwa-coastal-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/niwa-coastal-nz@git:20260726.9143ee5

Pins git:20260726.9143ee5 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/niwa-coastal-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260726.9143ee5, committed Jul 26, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 26, 2026
Size: 6,151 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Search and query NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) public ArcGIS open data through a lightweight no-login CLI: org-scoped dataset search plus GeoJSON layer queries for the Coastal Sensitivity Index (erosion), beach exposure, coastal landform and hinterland classification, and other national coastal and climate layers. Use when the task involves NZ coastal hazard sensitivity, coastal classification, or NIWA open geospatial datasets. Read-only; no authentication required.

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

# NIWA Coastal NZ

## Goal

Discover and query NIWA's public ArcGIS open data — the national Coastal
Sensitivity Index, beach exposure, and coastal classification layers among
~1,400 open items — through source-native catalogue, metadata, feature-query,
and MapServer identify operations.

## Use this when

- A task needs national coastal hazard sensitivity layers (CSI erosion), beach
  exposure, coastal landform type, or hinterland characteristics as GeoJSON
- A task needs to discover what datasets NIWA publishes openly

The CSI **inundation** item is still listed in NIWA's catalogue but its backing
service was withdrawn (verified 2026-07-26) — `search` will surface it and a
query against it fails with an upstream `Service not found`. Use CSI erosion,
or `searise-nz` for site-level inundation drivers.

## Do not use this for

- Weather forecasts or marine conditions (use `metservice-nz`)
- Tide predictions (use `nz-tides-surf`)
- Sea-level rise projections per coastal site (use `searise-nz`)
- Regional council hazard layers (use `wcc-arcgis-nz` for Wellington)
- Any write, upload, or account action

## Commands

```bash
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/niwa-coastal-nz@sha256:cf2c7dcfdcf13ef6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260726.9143ee5, 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_l4ismb45x5lfqrhi.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_l4ismb45x5lfqrhi)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 26, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260726.9143ee5 latest	2026-07-26	9143ee5	6,151 B	A	view · diff
git:20260726.922f030	2026-07-26	922f030	5,895 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 (6151 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_l4ismb45x5lfqrhi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/niwa-coastal-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cf2c7dcfdcf13ef60cde04d71402bc619d8a89122ee263e5e95f41d36a6f5cbc

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