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Use when the user asks for a weekly / monthly status report, project update, individual or team progress summary. Produces a tight, scannable update with what shipped, what's in flight, what's blocked, and metrics.

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Status Report

When to Use

Trigger phrases: "weekly update", "monthly report", "status report", "project update", "1:1 prep", "周报", "月报", "工作汇报".

Match the cadence implied by the request:

  • Daily / standup: 3 bullets max, "yesterday / today / blockers"
  • Weekly: full template below
  • Monthly: weekly template + "themes" section + metrics over time
  • Quarterly / OKR: include progress against named goals + risk assessment

This skill optimizes for the reader's time, not yours. A status report is read in 60 seconds or skipped.

The Weekly Template

# <Your Name / Team Name> — Week of <YYYY-MM-DD>

## TL;DR
<2 sentences. What's the state of the world? Use plain English.>

## ✅ Shipped This Week
- <bullet — outcome, not activity. Link if relevant.>
- <bullet — outcome.>

## 🔄 In Flight
- <project> — <what stage, expected ship date>
- <project> — <what stage, expected ship date>

## ⚠️ Risks / Blockers
- <risk> — <impact + what's needed to unblock>

## 📊 Metrics (optional)
| Metric | This Week | Last Week | Δ |
|--------|-----------|-----------|---|
| <name> | <value> | <value> | <±> |

## 📅 Next Week
- <top 3 priorities, in order>

Workflow

  1. Gather inputs via recall_memory (if scope=session/project) and ask_user_question:

    • Date range covered (default: last 7 days)
    • Audience (manager? cross-functional? company all-hands?) — affects depth and jargon
    • Key projects to cover
    • Whether metrics are required and what the baseline is

  2. Categorize ruthlessly — every bullet must fit exactly one bucket:

    • Shipped = merged / launched / delivered / decided. Past tense.
    • In Flight = work in progress, not yet shipped. Has an ETA.
    • Risks/Blockers = something that will hurt the plan if not addressed. Has a specific owner ask.

  3. Write outcomes, not activity:

    • Bad: "Worked on auth migration. Had 3 design meetings."
    • Good: "Auth migration: design approved, infra ready. Cutover scheduled for May 5 (low risk)."

  4. Quantify when possible:

    • "Shipped feature X" → "Shipped feature X (5% adoption in week 1, target was 3%)"
    • "Faster builds" → "CI builds dropped from 12m → 7m (median)"

  5. Sequence priorities by impact — the first item in "Next Week" should be the highest-leverage thing. Don't bury it.

  6. Save state — offer to save the report to memory or to compose an email via email-draft:

    Save this status to memory for next week's diff?
Send to <manager> as an email?

Style Rules

  • TL;DR is mandatory — readers should know whether to read further in 5 seconds
  • Bullets, not paragraphs — long sentences are a sign of unclear thinking
  • One bullet = one item — don't smuggle 3 things into "and also"
  • Past tense for shipped, present for in flight, conditional for risks
  • Drop hedge words — "I think we kind of made progress on …" → "We shipped …" or "We're 70% done with …"
  • No vanity metrics — if it's going up regardless of your effort, it's not your metric
  • Acknowledge what didn't ship — silence on planned-but-undelivered items damages trust more than honesty

Cadence-Specific Adjustments

Daily / Standup (≤3 bullets)

- Yesterday: <one outcome>
- Today: <one focus>
- Blockers: <none / specific ask>

Monthly (add to weekly template)

## 🎯 Themes
- <pattern across the 4 weeks: what got better, what's recurring>

## 📈 Trends
| Metric | Month-over-Month | Notes |
|--------|------------------|-------|
| ... | ... | ... |

## 🔭 Looking Ahead (next month)
- <strategic priorities, not tactical tasks>

Quarterly / OKR (replace template)

# Q<N> Review — <Team>

## Goals Status
| OKR | Target | Actual | Status | Confidence |
|-----|--------|--------|--------|------------|
| <name> | <metric> | <metric> | <On Track / At Risk / Off Track> | <0.0–1.0> |

## What Went Well
- <pattern, not single incident>

## What Didn't
- <honest pattern, with the lesson>

## Q<N+1> Bets
- <top 3 priorities for next quarter, with rationale>

Audience-Specific Adjustments

AudienceAdjust
Direct managerInclude risks honestly; manager wants to help unblock
Cross-functional teamMore context; less internal jargon
Company all-handsOutcomes only; cut planning details
Skip-level / execTL;DR + 3 bullets total; skip metrics unless they're 1-2 headline numbers
External (board, investors)Headline outcomes + roadmap; never blockers without solutions

Common Pitfalls

MistakeFix
Listing every Jira ticketGroup into ≤5 outcomes, name them
"Working on …" everywherePick a stage: design / implementation / review / shipped
Burying bad newsLead with "TL;DR: slipping by 1 week, here's why"
Vague metrics ("better", "faster")Specific numbers or skip the metric
Same priorities every weekEither reframe progress or admit it's stuck
No "next week" sectionAlways have one — shows you're proactive, not just reactive
Word-soup TL;DRTwo sentences max. If you can't compress, you don't understand the state.

Example

Input: "Write my weekly update — I shipped the auth refactor PR, I'm finishing the dashboard search feature, the embedding migration is blocked on infra, and I want to start the i18n rewrite next week."

Output:

# Alice — Week of 2026-04-25

## TL;DR
Shipped auth refactor; dashboard search done by Friday. Embedding migration blocked on infra capacity (need decision by Tuesday).

## ✅ Shipped This Week
- Auth refactor PR merged (#1234) — removes legacy session middleware, paves way for OAuth migration.

## 🔄 In Flight
- Dashboard search — backend + UI complete, integration tests pending. Ship target: Friday.

## ⚠️ Risks / Blockers
- Embedding migration — blocked waiting on infra team's capacity decision. **Need by Tuesday** or May ship date slips.

## 📅 Next Week
1. Land dashboard search to prod.
2. Kick off i18n rewrite (12 locales, scoping doc first).
3. Unblock embedding migration once infra responds.