data-govt-nz SKILL.md skillA

data-govt-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/data-govt-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/data-govt-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260719.1748a98, committed Jul 19, 2026
First version recorded: May 24, 2026
Size: 2,512 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Search and inspect New Zealand Government open-data catalogue datasets, organisations, resources, and datastore records through the public CKAN API at catalogue.data.govt.nz. Use when the task involves finding NZ public datasets, agencies, downloadable resources, CSV/API links, metadata, or data.govt.nz catalogue records. Read-only and no 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

# data.govt.nz Catalogue

## Goal

Query New Zealand's public open-data catalogue through a deterministic no-login CLI backed by the CKAN API.

## Use this when

- A user asks what public NZ datasets exist for a topic
- A workflow needs dataset metadata, organisations, resource URLs, or formats
- A user has a data.govt.nz dataset ID/name and wants details
- A workflow needs a small preview from a CKAN datastore resource

## Do not use this for

- Authenticated agency portals or non-public datasets
- Bulk mirroring the entire catalogue
- Treating catalogue metadata as authoritative source data without checking the linked source resource

## CLI

```bash
python3 skills/data-govt-nz/scripts/cli.py search "water quality" --json
python3 skills/data-govt-nz/scripts/cli.py dataset waterpoint --json
python3 skills/data-govt-nz/scripts/cli.py orgs --limit 20
python3 skills/data-govt-nz/scripts/cli.py resource <resource-id> --limit 5 --json
```

Commands:

- `search QUERY [--limit N] [--json]` - catalogue dataset search
- `dataset ID_OR_NAME [--json]` - full dataset/package metadata
- `orgs [--limit N] [--json]` - list catalogue organisations
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/data-govt-nz@sha256:107abd41483ecef9

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_x7jafw743e4t5lur.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_x7jafw743e4t5lur)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 24, 2026 and Jul 19, 2026, about one every 56 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260719.1748a98 latest	2026-07-19	1748a98	2,512 B	A	view · diff
git:20260524.df4341f	2026-05-24	df4341f	1,748 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 (2512 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_x7jafw743e4t5lur
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/data-govt-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/107abd41483ecef97ff24f9c16494b050c498c7e0e87818ff05ac5fd4bd9d4bf

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