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nz-local-government-data 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-local-government-data@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/nz-local-government-data/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260719.1748a98, committed Jul 19, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 2, 2026
Size: 6,328 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Discover and preview official New Zealand local government finance, performance, and statistics datasets from Stats NZ/data.govt.nz, DIA local council downloads, DIA council performance metrics, and OAG local-government insight sources. Use when the task involves council profiles, rates revenue, local authority statistics, comparing councils, finding machine-readable local-government datasets, or identifying official source gaps. Read-only, no login or API key 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 Local Government Data

## Goal

Find and preview official New Zealand local government datasets without login, mutation, API keys, browser automation, or invented structure for PDF-only sources.

The skill focuses on discovery-first access to:

- Stats NZ / data.govt.nz local-government and local-authority statistics catalogue resources
- DIA Local Councils downloadable data index resources
- DIA local government performance metrics / council profile data release
- OAG local-government insights as official context, not as invented structured rows

## Use this when

- A user asks where official NZ council finance, performance, rates, population, or comparison data lives
- A user needs a council list with identifiers/types from DIA council profile data
- A user wants a small preview of DIA council performance metrics such as rates revenue or population
- A user wants to discover Stats NZ/data.govt.nz local authority statistics datasets and resources
- A user asks how councils compare on a simple metric and official DIA profile data has a matching column
- A workflow needs JSON source URLs, formats, cadence notes, and licence caveats for local-government datasets
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-local-government-data@sha256:e7439597f378e267

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_vzqxrc27beilazme.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vzqxrc27beilazme)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 2, 2026 and Jul 19, 2026, about one every 17 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260719.1748a98 latest	2026-07-19	1748a98	6,328 B	A	view · diff
git:20260702.03c39eb	2026-07-02	03c39eb	5,461 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 (6328 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_vzqxrc27beilazme
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/nz-local-government-data
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e7439597f378e2674b8de023e748d1515481a3cdd5d974d951201bcd2c494e49

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.