RBNZ Data

SkillWeb & browsing

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.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

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 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

Signals

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