Today's Agent Skill: Auto-Generate Your Weekly Status Report
What It Does
Every Friday, knowledge workers spend 20–40 minutes reconstructing what they actually did that week from calendar invites, Slack threads, and half-remembered tasks. The work happened — but the narrative didn't write itself. This skill closes that gap by doing it for you.
How It Works
The skill pulls structured input (completed tasks, meetings attended, blockers encountered, and metrics if available) and formats it into a crisp, audience-appropriate status report. It applies a consistent template — wins, progress against goals, blockers, and next-week priorities — so stakeholders get predictable signal without you spending cognitive energy on formatting.
How to Deploy It
Drop the SKILL.md content below into your agent's skills directory and name it `weekly-status-report.md`. Trigger it each Friday by passing your task dump, calendar export, or plain-text notes as input — the agent handles the rest.
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# Weekly Status Report
## Description
Transforms raw weekly activity data (task lists, calendar notes, blockers, metrics) into a structured status report suitable for managers, stakeholders, or team standups. Produces consistent, scannable output without requiring the user to write prose from scratch.
## Trigger
Activates when the user says: "generate my weekly status," "write my Friday update," "turn this into a status report," or "weekly report from these notes."
## Input
- **Required:** A dump of the week's work in any format — bullet points, task tool export, calendar summary, freeform notes, or a mix.
- **Optional:** Target audience (manager, team, exec), desired tone (formal/casual), key metrics to highlight, and any items to explicitly exclude.
## Steps
1. Parse input and extract: completed work items, in-progress items, blockers or dependencies, and any numeric outcomes.
2. Infer context if audience is not specified — default to direct-manager tone (professional, concise, no jargon).
3. Cluster work items into logical themes or project areas.
4. Draft the four sections: **Wins This Week**, **In Progress**, **Blockers / Needs**, **Plan for Next Week**.
5. Apply a brevityCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.