Today's Agent Skill: Auto-Draft Your Weekly Status Report
What It Does
Writing a weekly status report from scratch is a 20-minute tax on Friday afternoon that nobody wants to pay. You have the raw material scattered across your task manager, calendar, and inbox — the problem is assembly, not authorship. This skill turns that scattered evidence into a polished, send-ready status update in under 60 seconds.
How It Works
The skill ingests three inputs — a dump of completed tasks, a list of upcoming milestones, and any blockers you call out — then structures them into a consistent report format with sections for accomplishments, next-week priorities, and risks. It normalizes tone, strips task-manager jargon, and groups related items so the output reads like a human wrote it deliberately, not a robot copy-pasted a to-do list.
How to Deploy It
Drop the SKILL.md content into your agent's skills folder (or paste it into your SKILL.md-compatible agent's context) and trigger it each Friday by typing 'status report' followed by a quick brain-dump of the week. Pair it with a calendar integration or task export to make the input step near-zero effort.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
# weekly-status-report
## Description
Generates a professional weekly status report from raw task notes, completed items, and upcoming priorities. Produces a structured, tone-normalized update suitable for sending to a manager or team without editing.
## Trigger
Activates when the user says: "status report", "weekly update", "write my status", "draft my weekly", or pastes a raw task list with a date reference.
## Input
- **Completed this week:** Bullet list or free-form dump of what got done (required)
- **Next week priorities:** What's on deck (required)
- **Blockers / risks:** Anything that needs visibility or help (optional)
- **Audience:** Manager, team, or stakeholder (optional — defaults to manager)
- **Tone:** Formal, neutral, or casual (optional — defaults to neutral)
## Steps
1. Parse the completed-items input. Group related items under themes (e.g., "Client Work", "Internal Projects", "Admin"). Drop redundant or trivial items (e.g., "checked email").
2. Rewrite each item as a past-tense accomplishment sentence. Strip internal jargon, ticket IDs, and tool names unless the audience is technical.
3. Parse next-week priorities. Rewrite as forward-looking action statementsCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.