Today's Agent Skill: Automated Weekly Status Report
What It Does
Writing your weekly status report eats 20-40 minutes every Friday — time spent excavating Slack threads, email chains, and half-finished task lists. Most reports end up either too sparse (looks like you did nothing) or too granular (nobody reads it). An agent that compiles and drafts this for you every week means your Friday afternoon is yours again.
How It Works
The skill scans your task management inputs (a paste of Jira tickets, a bullet-point brain dump, or a plain-text activity log) and structures them into a standard status report: what shipped, what's in progress, what's blocked, and what's next. It infers priorities from language cues and flags anything that looks like a risk or dependency worth calling out.
How to Deploy It
Drop the SKILL.md content into your agent's skill library and trigger it each Friday morning with a paste of your week's activity (Jira export, Slack summary, or freeform notes). Wire it to your email or Slack output channel if your agent supports outbound actions.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
## Description
Generates a structured weekly status report from unstructured activity inputs. Designed for individual contributors and team leads who need to produce clear, concise updates without spending cognitive energy on formatting or prioritization.
## Trigger
- User says: "write my status report", "draft my weekly update", "summarize my week", or pastes a raw activity dump with no other instruction
- Scheduled trigger: every Friday at a configured time
## Input
- Required: Raw activity data in any format — Jira/Linear ticket list, Slack thread paste, freeform bullet points, or prose notes
- Optional: Report audience (manager, team, stakeholder), preferred length (brief / standard / detailed), any items to exclude
## Steps
1. Parse the input and extract discrete work items, grouping by apparent project or workstream
2. Classify each item into one of four buckets: Shipped/Completed, In Progress, Blocked, and Upcoming
3. Detect risk signals — any item mentioning delay, dependency on another person, or unclear owner gets flagged for the Blockers section
4. Draft the report in a standard four-section format with a one-sentence executive summary at the top
5. Apply audience calCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.