git:20260524.b0ebbfb to git:20260524.918c4af

6 added, 2 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: rbnz-data

- description: Discover Reserve Bank of New Zealand public statistics datasets and resources through the data.govt.nz CKAN catalogue, including exchange-rate, wholesale-interest-rate, OCR/key-graph, lending, banking, and monetary datasets. Use when the task involves finding RBNZ dataset metadata, resource URLs, downloadable series, or datastore previews. Read-only; no authentication required for catalogue access.

+ description: Discover and fetch Reserve Bank of New Zealand public statistics datasets through data.govt.nz CKAN and browser-compatible rbnz.govt.nz public file/chart endpoints. Use when the task involves RBNZ exchange rates, wholesale interest rates, OCR/key graphs, retail mortgage/deposit rate charts, dataset metadata, resource URLs, downloadable XLSX series, or JSON chart-cache previews. Read-only; no authentication required.

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# RBNZ Data

## Goal

- Find RBNZ public statistics datasets/resources reliably through the data.govt.nz catalogue when direct rbnz.govt.nz downloads are protected by Cloudflare.

+ Find RBNZ public statistics datasets/resources through the data.govt.nz catalogue, then fetch official rbnz.govt.nz public XLSX/chart endpoints using browser-compatible request headers.

## CLI

```bash

python3 skills/rbnz-data/scripts/cli.py search "interest rates" --json

python3 skills/rbnz-data/scripts/cli.py dataset exchange-rates --json

python3 skills/rbnz-data/scripts/cli.py exchange-rates --limit 3 --json

+ python3 skills/rbnz-data/scripts/cli.py download exchange-rates --match daily --preview

+ python3 skills/rbnz-data/scripts/cli.py chart retail-rates --limit 5 --json

```

Commands:

- `search QUERY [--limit N] [--json]` - RBNZ-only data.govt.nz catalogue search

- `dataset ID_OR_NAME [--json]` - package metadata and resource URLs

- `exchange-rates [--limit N] [--json]` - small CKAN datastore preview for the RBNZ exchange-rates resource where available

+ - `download DATASET [--match TEXT] [--preview] [--output PATH] [--json]` - fetch a matching official RBNZ public XLSX resource and optionally preview worksheet rows

+ - `chart {twi,retail-rates}` - fetch public RBNZ chart-cache JSON used on the Statistics page

## Resources

- CLI: `scripts/cli.py`

- Smoke test: `scripts/smoke_test.py`

- API notes: `references/api-notes.md`