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lawa-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/lawa-nz@git:20260719.1748a98

Pins git:20260719.1748a98 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: thecolab-ai/.skills
Path: skills/lawa-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260719.1748a98, committed Jul 19, 2026
First version recorded: May 24, 2026
Size: 2,083 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA) public river-quality sites, swimming sites, and river indicator summaries through no-login Umbraco JSON endpoints. Use when the task involves NZ river quality, macroinvertebrate/community index data, E. coli/nutrient indicator bands, swim-site listings, or LAWA environmental monitoring site discovery. Read-only.

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

# LAWA NZ

## Goal

Query public LAWA environmental monitoring site and indicator data with a deterministic read-only CLI.

## CLI

```bash
python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py river-sites --query waikato --json
python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py swim-sites --query beach --limit 10
python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py indicators --lawa-id ARC-00001 --json
```

Commands:

- `river-sites [--query TEXT] [--limit N] [--json]` - river-quality map sites and regions
- `swim-sites [--query TEXT] [--limit N] [--json]` - swimming site cards parsed from LAWA public response HTML
- `indicators [--lawa-id ID] [--parameter PARAM] [--limit N] [--json]` - river indicator summaries from LAWA public JSON

## Resources

- CLI: `scripts/cli.py`
- Smoke test: `scripts/smoke_test.py`
- API notes: `references/api-notes.md`

## Notes

LAWA endpoints are public/read-only but not a formal published API contract; keep calls modest and verify live data before relying on broad analysis.

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/lawa-nz@sha256:8e3f2de5322b23cc

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.

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git:20260524.df4341f	2026-05-24	df4341f	1,365 B	A	view

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Source

GitHub

thecolab-ai/.skills · 33 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vsf4pzherj4ycd6x
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/lawa-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8e3f2de5322b23cc6bceebe5b61e43fdfb77782d2df878bfb2c428e12e4a555b

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