nz-arcgis SKILL.md skillA

nz-arcgis 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-arcgis@git:20261008.8699aeb

Pins git:20261008.8699aeb 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-arcgis/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261008.8699aeb, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded: Oct 8, 2026
Size: 10,915 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Discover and query allowlisted New Zealand public-sector and utility ArcGIS services and layers, including Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Hamilton assets, hazards and transport data. Use for service/layer metadata, counts and bounded WGS84 spatial extracts as JSON, GeoJSON or CSV, including PC120 map metadata.

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 ArcGIS

Use `scripts/cli.py` to discover public ArcGIS REST services from verified New Zealand publishers, inspect layers and extract bounded spatial records. Python 3.10+, stdlib only; keyless and read-only.

## Workflow

1. Run `orgs` to select a publisher and inspect its verified roots.
2. Use `services ORG` then `layers ORG SERVICE` to discover layer URLs. A service name includes its server type, such as `PJ_Roadworks_MS/FeatureServer`. Enterprise services on another root use their full allowlisted HTTPS URL.
3. For Auckland hackathon data, use `layers --curated akl --problem F1` or read [references/layers-auckland.md](references/layers-auckland.md). Names, A/B grades, problem tags, licences and caveats are machine-readable in [references/layers-auckland.json](references/layers-auckland.json).
   Use `layers --curated nz --publisher dcc` for the wider selection; [references/layers-nz.md](references/layers-nz.md) and [references/layers-nz.json](references/layers-nz.json) document the additional council layers, Flooded NZ and PC120 services. `--publisher` filters either curated selection by organisation code.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-arcgis@sha256:4998adf16b34264f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.8699aeb, 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_viojsgfekntnyw7x.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_viojsgfekntnyw7x)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 8, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261008.8699aeb latest	2026-10-08	8699aeb	10,915 B	A	view · diff
git:20261008.d1b0975	2026-10-08	d1b0975	8,021 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 (10915 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_viojsgfekntnyw7x
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-arcgis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4998adf16b34264fc03b87b0800040e9060a85c87698c57fc4152025ea42d55d

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.