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gwrc-hilltop-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/gwrc-hilltop-nz@git:20260722.b372689

Pins git:20260722.b372689 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/gwrc-hilltop-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260722.b372689, committed Jul 22, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 22, 2026
Size: 5,561 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query Greater Wellington Regional Council Hilltop environmental monitoring time series through a lightweight no-login CLI: rainfall gauges, river and stream levels and flows, monitoring site lists with coordinates, and per-site measurement catalogues. Use when the task involves Wellington-region rainfall totals, current river levels, flood-watch context, or Hilltop time-series data. Read-only; 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

# GWRC Hilltop NZ

## Goal

Query Greater Wellington Regional Council's public Hilltop environmental monitoring
server for rainfall gauge totals and river/stream levels and flows — the core
severe-weather situational data for the Wellington region — through a deterministic
read-only CLI with human and JSON output.

## Use this when

- A task needs current or recent Wellington-region river or stream levels/flows
- A task needs rainfall totals across the region's gauges over a recent window
- A task needs GWRC monitoring site locations or the measurements a site offers
- A workflow needs machine-readable Hilltop time-series data from a verified
  council server in the built-in registry; GWRC is the default

## Do not use this for

- Official flood or severe weather warnings — gauge data is raw and provisional;
  warnings come from MetService and civil defence channels
- River water quality (use `lawa-nz`), tides (use `nz-tides-surf`), or forecasts
- Any write, subscription, or alerting action

## Commands

```bash
python3 skills/gwrc-hilltop-nz/scripts/cli.py sites --search "hutt river" --limit 10
python3 skills/gwrc-hilltop-nz/scripts/cli.py sites --measurement Flow --json
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/gwrc-hilltop-nz@sha256:503ad1365c2db228

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260722.b372689, 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_vsbxdd3q7rymoxw5.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vsbxdd3q7rymoxw5)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 22, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260722.b372689 latest	2026-07-22	b372689	5,561 B	A	view · diff
git:20260722.79d8563	2026-07-22	79d8563	4,903 B	A	view · diff
git:20260722.1856496	2026-07-22	1856496	4,401 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 (5561 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_vsbxdd3q7rymoxw5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/gwrc-hilltop-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/503ad1365c2db228c00ff494844b7e8ce9de019802921f6fcb5622d324f60088

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