Agent skill

Weekly Status Report

by sgharlow in sgharlow/claude-code-recipes

Turn scattered weekly updates (notes, emails, task exports, meeting notes) into a structured status report with highlights, progress, severity-rated blockers, and next-week priorities.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Weekly Status Report

skills CLI
$ npx skills add sgharlow/claude-code-recipes --skill weekly-status-report -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install sgharlow/claude-code-recipes weekly-status-report --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sgharlow/claude-code-recipes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/weekly-status-report .claude/skills/weekly-status-report && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
weekly-status-report
GitHub stars
389
Token cost
~602 tokens
SKILL.md length
273 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
6
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Turn scattered weekly updates (notes, emails, task exports, meeting notes) into a structured status report with highlights, progress, severity-rated blockers, and next-week priorities.

  • Works in 5 steps: Get the raw material. Accept pasted… → Classify every item, citing the input it… → Render the report under one page:… → …
  • The user says write my status report
  • SKILL.md covers Steps and Constraints
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Weekly Status Report is an agent skill from sgharlow/claude-code-recipes. Turn scattered weekly updates (notes, emails, task exports, meeting notes) into a structured status report with highlights, progress, severity-rated blockers, and next-week priorities. Use when the user says "write my status report", "weekly update", "summarize my week for my manager", or pastes a raw dump of what happened this week.

Its SKILL.md is about 600 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `evals/report-from-raw-notes.md`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Internal communications. The repository describes itself as: 100 field-tested Claude Code recipes for knowledge workers — prompts, steps, and 6 installable graded skills.

When your agent uses it

  • The user says write my status report
  • Summarize my week for my manager
  • Pastes a raw dump of what happened this week

Example prompts

  • “write my status report”
  • “weekly update”
  • “summarize my week for my manager”
  • “/weekly-status-report”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Get the raw material. Accept pasted notes, forwarded emails, task-tool exports, meeting
  2. Classify every item, citing the input it came from
  3. Render the report under one page: HIGHLIGHTS (3–5) → PROGRESS → BLOCKERS & RISKS (table
  4. Verify before presenting: every claim traces to a line of input; anything the user's raw
  5. Offer audience variants from the same material on request (3-bullet skip-level version,

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9157c9a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Weekly Status Report loads about 602 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 273 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~602

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 273 words (~602 tokens).

“Synthesize a week of scattered raw inputs into one scannable, audience-ready status report. Report only what the inputs support — never invent accomplishments, metrics, or dates, and never upgrade routine work into a highlight without evidence of impact.”

— opening of SKILL.md by sgharlow, Custom licence
name
weekly-status-report

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/weekly-status-report of sgharlow/claude-code-recipes.

  • SKILL.md
  • evals/report-from-raw-notes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9157c9a

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Program Managerborghei/Claude-Skills891—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Internal Communications Writeranthropics/skills180k38 repos~378Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Natural Japanese Business Writingcoji/natural-japanese1.9k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Weekly Status Report

What does Weekly Status Report do?

Turn scattered weekly updates (notes, emails, task exports, meeting notes) into a structured status report with highlights, progress, severity-rated blockers, and next-week priorities. Weekly Status Report is an agent skill from sgharlow/claude-code-recipes. Turn scattered weekly updates (notes, emails, task exports, meeting notes) into a structured status report with highlights, progress, severity-rated blockers, and next-week priorities.

When should I use Weekly Status Report?

Weekly Status Report fits situations like: the user says write my status report; summarize my week for my manager; pastes a raw dump of what happened this week.

How do I install Weekly Status Report in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add sgharlow/claude-code-recipes --skill weekly-status-report -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/weekly-status-report in sgharlow/claude-code-recipes) into .claude/skills/weekly-status-report in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Weekly Status Report in Codex?

Run `npx skills add sgharlow/claude-code-recipes --skill weekly-status-report -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/weekly-status-report in sgharlow/claude-code-recipes) into .agents/skills/weekly-status-report in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Weekly Status Report in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add sgharlow/claude-code-recipes --skill weekly-status-report -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/weekly-status-report, .gemini/skills/weekly-status-report, .github/skills/weekly-status-report and .opencode/skills/weekly-status-report in your project.

What does Weekly Status Report need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Weekly Status Report is instructions for the agent only.

Does Weekly Status Report access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Weekly Status Report safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Weekly Status Report use?

Weekly Status Report has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Weekly Status Report use?

About 602 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Weekly Status Report?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Weekly Status Report: Oc Status (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars), Recipe Send Team Announcement (googleworkspace/cli, 31k stars), Program Manager (borghei/Claude-Skills, 891 stars) and Internal Communications Writer (anthropics/skills, 180k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Weekly Status Report?

sgharlow (a GitHub user) maintains it in sgharlow/claude-code-recipes, which has 389 GitHub stars. The repository holds 6 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 1, 2026.

Source: sgharlow/claude-code-recipes on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.