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statsnz-building-consents 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/statsnz-building-consents@git:20260719.89b10f6

Pins git:20260719.89b10f6 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/statsnz-building-consents/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260719.89b10f6, committed Jul 19, 2026
Size: 3,135 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query official Stats NZ building-consent counts, values and floor area by region, building type and period with revision context.

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

# Statsnz Building Consents

Use the read-only Python CLI to retrieve embedded release series and workbook tables from Stats NZ.
Every command supports `--json`, bounded requests, stable exit codes, source URLs and retrieval timestamps.

## Commands

```bash
# show latest release resources
python3 scripts/cli.py latest --json
# filter by geography
python3 scripts/cli.py region NAME --json
# filter by building type
python3 scripts/cli.py type NAME --json
# retrieve a date-range time series
python3 scripts/cli.py timeseries --from 2025-01 --to 2026-05 --json
# retrieve published national value measures
python3 scripts/cli.py value --region "New Zealand" --json
# compare the latest published regional dwelling counts
python3 scripts/cli.py compare-regions --json
# show measure, classification and revision definitions
python3 scripts/cli.py definitions --json
```

Add `--limit N` (1–100) to bound any command. Human output is the default.

## Coverage and interpretation

- Consents are intentions or authorisations, not completed buildings.
- Keep residential units, buildings, alterations and non-residential measures distinct.
- Preserve revised series and geography-boundary context.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/statsnz-building-consents@sha256:942aee3aa07598f4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260719.89b10f6, 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_qbflhd7pwjqwicys.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qbflhd7pwjqwicys)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 19, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260719.89b10f6 latest	2026-07-19	89b10f6	3,135 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 (3135 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_qbflhd7pwjqwicys
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/statsnz-building-consents
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/942aee3aa07598f4fb97eecf9859371b434b92ad9c207ccc7478a575632b09e3

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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.