LAWA NZ
SkillProductivityQuery Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA) public river-quality sites, swimming sites, and river indicator summaries through no-login Umbraco JSON endpoints. Use when the task involves NZ river quality, macroinvertebrate/community index data, E. coli/nutrient indicator bands, swim-site listings, or LAWA environmental monitoring site discovery. Read-only.
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What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thecolab-ai/.skills in skills/lawa-nz/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Goal
Query public LAWA environmental monitoring site and indicator data with a deterministic read-only CLI.
CLI
python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py river-sites --query waikato --json
python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py swim-sites --query beach --limit 10
python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py indicators --lawa-id ARC-00001 --json
Commands:
river-sites [--query TEXT] [--limit N] [--json]- river-quality map sites and regionsswim-sites [--query TEXT] [--limit N] [--json]- swimming site cards parsed from LAWA public response HTMLindicators [--lawa-id ID] [--parameter PARAM] [--limit N] [--json]- river indicator summaries from LAWA public JSON
Resources
- CLI:
scripts/cli.py - Smoke test:
scripts/smoke_test.py - API notes:
references/api-notes.md
Notes
LAWA endpoints are public/read-only but not a formal published API contract; keep calls modest and verify live data before relying on broad analysis.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 25
- Forks
- 6
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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