RBNZ Data
SkillWeb & browsingDiscover 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.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
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Then ask your AI: use the RBNZ Data skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thecolab-ai/.skills in skills/rbnz-data/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Goal
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
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 searchdataset ID_OR_NAME [--json]- package metadata and resource URLsexchange-rates [--limit N] [--json]- small CKAN datastore preview for the RBNZ exchange-rates resource where availabledownload DATASET [--match TEXT] [--preview] [--output PATH] [--json]- fetch a matching official RBNZ public XLSX resource and optionally preview worksheet rowschart {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
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 25
- Forks
- 6
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
rbnz-data- Source
- github.com/thecolab-ai/.skills