Today's Agent Skill: Auto-Generate Your Weekly Status Report
What It Does
Writing a weekly status report is one of those tasks that takes 30 minutes but adds zero value — you already know what you did. The hard part is translating a week of scattered notes, Slack threads, and half-finished tasks into something your manager actually wants to read. An agent skill can draft that report in under 60 seconds.
How It Works
The skill pulls from a structured input — your bullet-point notes, completed task list, or a brain-dump paragraph — and maps them into a standard status report format: wins, in-progress work, blockers, and next week's priorities. It normalizes language, groups related items, and calibrates tone to be direct and executive-readable without sounding robotic.
How to Deploy It
Add the SKILL.md content below to your agent's skill library or paste it into any SKILL.md-compatible runner. Trigger it each Friday afternoon by typing 'generate my status report' followed by a paste of your week's notes — no template required on your end.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
## Description
Converts unstructured weekly notes, task lists, or brain-dumps into a clean, executive-readable weekly status report. Groups work into standard categories, normalizes tone, and flags blockers clearly.
## Trigger
Activates when the user says: 'generate my status report', 'write my weekly update', 'draft my Friday report', or pastes notes with a prompt like 'turn this into a status report'.
## Input
- Required: A block of raw notes, completed tasks, or a brain-dump paragraph covering the past week's work
- Optional: Recipient audience (e.g., 'for my VP', 'for the team')
- Optional: Any blockers or escalations to highlight
- Optional: Next week's priorities if known
## Steps
1. Parse the input and identify discrete work items, outcomes, and any mentioned blockers or dependencies.
2. Group items into four categories: Completed This Week, In Progress, Blockers / Needs Attention, and Priorities for Next Week.
3. Rewrite each item in action-verb past tense for completed work ('Finalized vendor contract', not 'worked on vendor stuff') and present-continuous for in-progress ('Coordinating with legal on…').
4. If audience is specified, calibrate detail level — VP-level = ouCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.