nz-news SKILL.md skillA

nz-news 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-news@git:20261008.43d384d

Pins git:20261008.43d384d 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-news/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20261008.43d384d, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded: May 29, 2026
Size: 9,886 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Aggregate RSS feeds from major New Zealand news websites. Use when the task involves NZ news, current events in New Zealand, what's happening in NZ, NZ headlines, or searching NZ stories by topic, timeframe, or source. Discover recent interview episode candidates from public programme feeds with dated provenance and transcript availability. 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

# NZ News

## Goal

Aggregate live RSS feeds from major New Zealand news websites into a single CLI tool for quick headline scanning, source browsing, and obvious topic searching.

## Use this when

- A user asks about current NZ news or what's happening in New Zealand
- A user wants today's headlines from NZ media
- A user asks about news from a specific NZ outlet (Stuff, RNZ, NZ Herald, etc.)
- A user wants to search NZ news by topic, keyword, timeframe, or source
- A user needs a quick New Zealand news briefing

## Do not use this for

- International news not covered by NZ outlets
- Historical news or archived articles
- Paywalled content (some NZ Herald articles may be paywalled)
- Social media or non-news content
- Real-time breaking news alerts (RSS feeds have a delay)

## Preferred workflow

1. Run `scripts/cli.py` with the narrowest subcommand that answers the task
2. Start with `search` for any topic lookup, either positionally or with flags
3. Use `--source`, `--since-hours`, `--since-date`, `--contains-all`, `--exact`, and `--exclude` when the request needs tighter matching
4. Terms match whole words by default; add `--substring` only when parts of words must match
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-news@sha256:5f4de223afaa9f99

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.43d384d, 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_qk2zbcpz3dob7vql.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qk2zbcpz3dob7vql)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 29, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 33 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261008.43d384d latest	2026-10-08	43d384d	9,886 B	A	view · diff
git:20260912.c9b9a04	2026-09-12	c9b9a04	8,793 B	A	view · diff
git:20260719.1748a98	2026-07-19	1748a98	7,177 B	A	view · diff
git:20260529.8eda926	2026-05-29	8eda926	6,194 B	A	view · diff
git:20260529.2b8b7b0	2026-05-29	2b8b7b0	6,256 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 (9886 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_qk2zbcpz3dob7vql
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-news
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5f4de223afaa9f997d5b32a20ea167725a57c303494febb8a7a062343652edd7

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