nz-parliament SKILL.md skillA

nz-parliament 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-parliament@git:20260719.1748a98

Pins git:20260719.1748a98 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-parliament/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260719.1748a98, committed Jul 19, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 5, 2026
Size: 3,304 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Track New Zealand Parliament bills and their legislative progress from the public bills.parliament.nz API. Use when the task involves NZ bills, legislation before Parliament, a bill's status or stage (first reading, select committee, etc.), who introduced a bill, government vs member's bills, or searching bills by keyword. Keyless, read-only; no login. Covers bills only (not MP directory, votes, Hansard, or petitions).

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 Parliament

Track bills before the New Zealand Parliament and their progress through the House,
from the public **bills.parliament.nz** JSON API. Keyless, read-only; no login,
account, or API key.

## Use this when

- A user asks **what bills are before Parliament**, or to search bills by keyword
- A user wants a **bill's status / current stage** (first reading, select committee,
  second reading, royal assent, etc.) and its stage timeline
- A user wants to know **who introduced a bill**, or government vs member's bills
- A workflow needs machine-readable NZ legislation-in-progress data

## Do not use this for

- MP directory, electorates, party lists — not covered (bot-protected source)
- Votes / divisions, Hansard debates, written questions, petitions — not covered
- The full text of enacted law — use legislation.govt.nz
- Government press releases / ministers — use the `nz-ministers` skill

## Commands

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

# Current bills before the House
python3 $cli bills
python3 $cli bills --limit 30 --json

# Search bills by keyword (across all bills, not just current)
python3 $cli bills --keyword climate --all
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-parliament@sha256:10a7cfd1ad0e33ba

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260719.1748a98, 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 Jun 5, 2026 and Jul 19, 2026, about one every 44 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260719.1748a98 latest	2026-07-19	1748a98	3,304 B	A	view · diff
git:20260605.49e6000	2026-06-05	49e6000	2,580 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

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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_ptypcsuervyj6son
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-parliament
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/10a7cfd1ad0e33baf7f9de51256572bca6f69f859049a5ae73e1be325780da87

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