Today's Agent Skill: Automated Weekly Status Report
What It Does
Every Friday, someone has to spend 30 minutes piecing together what the team shipped, what slipped, and what's next — then write it into a readable summary for stakeholders. That time adds up to two weeks of lost work per year, and the output is often inconsistent. An agent can draft it in seconds, every week, with zero cognitive overhead.
How It Works
The skill pulls completed tasks, blockers, and upcoming priorities from wherever you track them, then structures them into a three-section status report matching your team's reporting template. It normalizes messy task-list inputs into clean, professional prose calibrated to your audience — exec summary or detailed team update.
How to Deploy It
Drop SKILL.md into your agent's skills folder and trigger it each Friday afternoon with a natural-language command like 'draft this week's status report.' The agent reads your task list and notes, writes the report, and optionally queues it as a draft email or shared document.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
## Description
Automatically drafts a weekly status report by synthesizing completed tasks, blockers, and upcoming priorities into structured, stakeholder-ready prose. Eliminates the Friday-afternoon reporting grind.
## Trigger
User says: 'draft weekly status report', 'write my Friday update', 'generate this week's status', or similar. Also fires on a scheduled Friday trigger if configured.
## Input
- List of tasks completed this week (from task manager, notes, or direct user input)
- Any blockers or risks encountered
- Planned priorities for next week
- Optional: stakeholder audience level (exec, team, or client)
- Optional: previous week's report for continuity context
## Steps
1. Parse the input task list and group items by project or workstream.
2. Identify any explicitly flagged blockers or risks; if none provided, default to 'None flagged this week.'
3. Extract next-week priorities from user input, or infer them from incomplete tasks.
4. Draft the report using a three-section structure: This Week, Blockers & Risks, Next Week.
5. Adjust prose tone based on audience: tight bullets for exec, fuller narrative for team or client.
6. Prepend a one-line headline suitable for use Copy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.