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education-counts-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/education-counts-nz@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/education-counts-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260719.1748a98, committed Jul 19, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 5, 2026
Size: 4,781 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query Education Counts teacher workforce and initial teacher education public sources for New Zealand teacher supply research. Use when the task involves ITE enrolments/completions, teacher numbers, teacher entry/leaving, teacher turnover, teacher demand and supply projections, workbook URLs, or source caveats for Ministry of Education teacher workforce data.

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

# Education Counts NZ

## Goal

Discover and extract public Ministry of Education Education Counts teacher workforce and ITE data with a read-only CLI.

## Use This When

- A user asks for NZ teacher supply, teacher workforce, or initial teacher education statistics
- A workflow needs current Education Counts workbook/PDF links and release dates
- Another tool needs machine-readable rows from a public Education Counts workbook
- A user needs source caveats for rounded, provisional, or bot-blocked Education Counts data

## Do Not Use This For

- School directory lookup; use an NZ schools or Education Counts directory-specific skill
- Individual teacher records, private workforce data, or Teaching Council registration checks
- Generic tertiary enrolment statistics unrelated to initial teacher education
- Authenticated Ministry systems or any attempt to bypass CAPTCHA/request-auth blocks

## Preferred Workflow

1. Run `scripts/cli.py list --json` to inspect supported dataset families and known source pages.
2. Use `resources --dataset <name> --json` to discover workbook/PDF links from the live page when the page is reachable.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/education-counts-nz@sha256:de61ccf2c6e03c87

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

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_vpzkteresnudrq7p.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vpzkteresnudrq7p)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Jul 19, 2026, about one every 14 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260719.1748a98 latest	2026-07-19	1748a98	4,781 B	A	view · diff
git:20260705.66f3320	2026-07-05	66f3320	4,035 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 (4781 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_vpzkteresnudrq7p
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/education-counts-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/de61ccf2c6e03c87288cd2585e7cc84e29de512a382eb2d5c67df1379e0da038

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