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status-update

Skill2 starsChanged 58 days agoMITView on GitHub

Create concise status updates for teams, managers, executives, customers, or partners.

11 other projects use a version of this.

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

9 rules. 0 are common, 9 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 11 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 9

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    Create a concise update from messy conversation state without losing the ask, risk, or next milestone.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Do not send the update unless explicitly asked.

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  3. Distinctive:

    Keep risks separate from blockers.

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  4. Distinctive:

    Keep the output short enough to send quickly.

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  5. Distinctive:

    Use only the useful subset of source-backed facts, assumptions, source gaps, stakeholder sensitivities, potential misreads, and the …

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  6. Distinctive:

    Use the smallest useful output.

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  7. Distinctive:

    When consuming upstream state, do not promote an assumption, inference, open question, proposed action, or stakeholder position into a …

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  8. Distinctive:

    Keep unresolved approvals, owners, timing, and blockers explicit in the update.

    line 46
  9. Distinctive:

    Do not send, publish, update tickets, create events, or mutate systems unless explicitly asked.

    line 47

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 11 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

status-update

Purpose

Create a concise update from messy conversation state without losing the ask, risk, or next milestone.

Modes

  • team
  • manager
  • executive
  • customer / partner

Inputs

  • Slack or email context
  • Project or ticket context
  • Meeting notes
  • Customer context
  • Pasted update notes
  • A reduce-to-facts ledger or conversation-state record

Guardrails

  • Read before write.
  • Do not send the update unless explicitly asked.
  • Keep risks separate from blockers.
  • Tune tone and detail to the audience.
  • Label assumptions and source gaps.
  • Keep the output short enough to send quickly.

Portable Output Contract

  • Use only the useful subset of source-backed facts, assumptions, source gaps, stakeholder sensitivities, potential misreads, and the suggested next action.
  • Use the smallest useful output.
  • Label assumptions and preserve source gaps, source anchors, and confidence labels.
  • When consuming upstream state, do not promote an assumption, inference, open question, proposed action, or stakeholder position into a fact, decision, commitment, owner, or deadline without new source support.
  • Keep unresolved approvals, owners, timing, and blockers explicit in the update.
  • Do not send, publish, update tickets, create events, or mutate systems unless explicitly asked.

Output

  • Conversation state
  • Status
  • What changed
  • Progress
  • Risks / blockers
  • Stakeholder sensitivities
  • Asks
  • Next milestone
  • Suggested audience-specific version

Success Standard

The user should get a send-ready update in under 5 minutes.

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