Today's Agent Skill: Auto-Draft Your Weekly Stakeholder Update
What It Does
Writing the weekly status email to leadership eats 30–45 minutes of focused time that most project managers don't have on Friday afternoons. Every week you're hunting through Slack threads, task trackers, and meeting notes to reconstruct what actually happened — then translating it into something an executive will read in 90 seconds. This skill lets an agent do the reconstruction and drafting so you arrive at the update with a polished first draft, not a blank page.
How It Works
The skill ingests raw inputs — task tracker exports, bullet-point notes, or pasted Slack highlights — and structures them into a standard stakeholder update format covering wins, blockers, metrics, and next-week priorities. It applies a configurable tone (executive-brief vs. detailed ops), detects long-running blockers and flags them as risk items, and writes a specific subject line. The output is a ready-to-send email draft, not a summary document.
How to Deploy It
Drop the SKILL.md file into your agent's skills directory and trigger it by pasting your weekly raw notes with the phrase 'draft stakeholder update.' The skill accepts freeform text, structured lists, or CSV task exports — no template required from your end.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
## Description
Auto-drafts a polished weekly stakeholder update email from raw project notes, task exports, or Slack highlights. Outputs a ready-to-send message structured for executive readers.
## Trigger
- "draft stakeholder update"
- "write my weekly update"
- "status email from these notes"
- "turn this into a status report"
## Input
- Raw notes (freeform bullet points, Slack pastes, or prose)
- Optional: task tracker export (CSV or plain list)
- Optional: tone flag — `executive` (default, 150–200 words) or `detailed` (300–400 words)
- Optional: project name and reporting period
## Steps
1. **Parse inputs** — extract completed items, in-progress work, blockers, and upcoming priorities from the raw material. Infer the reporting period if not explicitly stated.
2. **Classify items** — tag each item as WIN, IN PROGRESS, BLOCKER, or NEXT WEEK. Flag any blocker that appears to have been unresolved for 2+ weeks as a risk item.
3. **Draft the update** — structure output into four sections: This Week's Wins, Current Status, Blockers & Risks, Next Week's Priorities.
4. **Apply tone** — executive mode compresses each section to 1–3 bullet points with plain language; detailed mode alloCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.