Today's Agent Skill: Auto-Generate Your Weekly Status Report
What It Does
Friday at 4 PM and your manager wants a status update — but your week lives scattered across Slack threads, task boards, and half-finished docs. Assembling it manually takes 30 minutes you don't have, and the output is always a rushed bullet dump that undersells your work. An agent skill can draft a polished, consistent status report in under 60 seconds.
How It Works
The skill ingests a list of completed tasks, blockers, and next-week priorities (pasted as plain text or pulled from a connected task tool), then structures them into a professional status report with an executive summary, progress section, blockers callout, and forward-looking priorities. It normalizes inconsistent input — raw Slack snippets, Jira ticket titles, shorthand notes — into clean, stakeholder-ready prose.
How to Deploy It
Drop this SKILL.md into any SKILL.md-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, or a custom SDK wrapper) and trigger it by typing 'status report' followed by your raw week notes. Wire it to a Friday 4 PM cron or Slack slash command for zero-friction weekly delivery.
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# SKILL: Weekly Status Report Generator
## Description
Transforms raw task notes, blockers, and priorities into a structured weekly status report formatted for manager or team distribution. Normalizes freeform input into consistent, professional prose.
## Trigger
Activates when the user types 'status report' or 'weekly update' followed by notes, or when called programmatically with a `weekly_notes` parameter.
## Input
- `weekly_notes` (required): Freeform text — completed tasks, blockers, next-week priorities. Accepts bullet lists, Slack snippets, Jira IDs, or prose. Minimum 3 items.
- `recipient_audience` (optional): 'manager', 'team', or 'exec'. Defaults to 'manager'. Controls tone and detail level.
- `report_date` (optional): ISO date string. Defaults to current Friday.
## Steps
1. Parse `weekly_notes` into three buckets: completed work, active blockers, and upcoming priorities. If a note is ambiguous, classify by tense (past = completed, present = blocker, future = upcoming).
2. Write a 2-sentence executive summary — what shipped and what's the headline going into next week.
3. Expand each completed item into a one-line accomplishment statement using action-verb format ("ShCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.