By name: nz-comcom description: Search New Zealand Commerce Commission cases, news, decisions, and reports from comcom.govt.nz. Use when the task involves the Commerce Commission (ComCom), the case register (merger clearances, cartel, consumer credit, fair trading), market studies, regulated industries (electricity, gas, telco, fibre, airports, dairy, grocery, fuel), media releases, or finding ComCom report/decision PDFs. Keyless, read-only; no login.
NZ Commerce Commission
Search and read public material from the New Zealand Commerce Commission (comcom.govt.nz) — the competition, consumer, and economic-regulation authority. Keyless, read-only; no login, account, or API key.
Use this when
- A user wants to search ComCom for a topic, decision, or report
- A user asks about the case register — merger/acquisition clearances, cartel and fair trading enforcement, consumer credit cases, their status/outcome
- A user wants market studies or regulated-industry material (electricity, gas, telco, fibre, airports, dairy, grocery, retail fuel)
- A user wants recent media releases / decisions / report announcements
- A user wants the document/report PDFs attached to a case or page
Do not use this for
- Ministers / government press releases — use
nz-ministers - Bills before Parliament — use
nz-parliament - Company registration / directors — use
companies-office-nzornzbn-register - Filing complaints or any write/login action (read-only)
Commands
cli=skills/nz-comcom/scripts/cli.py
# Site-wide search across cases, decisions, reports, guidelines
python3 $cli search "grocery market study"
python3 $cli search "interchange fees" --limit 10 --json
# Case register entries (recent, or filtered by keyword)
python3 $cli cases
python3 $cli cases --keyword finance --json
# News, media releases, and report announcements
python3 $cli news
python3 $cli news --year 2026 --json
# Read one page/case and list its documents (report PDFs)
python3 $cli page /case-register/case-register-entries/asb-bank-ltd/
python3 $cli page https://www.comcom.govt.nz/about-us/our-role/competition-studies/ --json
Arguments
search <query>—--limit N,--jsoncases—-k/--keyword TEXT,--limit N,--jsonnews—--year YYYY,--limit N,--jsonpage <url|path>—--limit N(max documents),--json
Resources
- CLI entrypoint:
scripts/cli.py - Smoke test:
scripts/smoke_test.py - Endpoints, card parsing, and document extraction:
references/api-notes.md
Notes
- Data are live snapshots scraped from the server-rendered comcom.govt.nz site.
search/cases/newsreturn result cards (title, URL, summary/status); usepageto drill into a result and collect its report/decision PDFs.--jsonon every command gives machine-readable output for agent chaining.- Use NZ English in any summaries built from the output (organisation, colour).