3P and Weekly Team Update Writer
Turn raw notes into a weekly 3P update your manager reads: outcomes not activity, honest problems, explicit asks, real dates.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
I can help you draft a team update for this week. That's a great way to keep everyone informed and aligned. To write something useful, I'll need a bit of context. What's your role — are you writing as a manager for your direct reports, or as a team lead for a broader group? What major work did your team accomplish this week that's worth calling out? Are there any blockers or challenges you want to mention? What's coming up next week or in the sprint? Also, what's the tone you prefer — more casual and conversational, or formal and structured? Do you want to include any metrics or data points? Should I format it as a bullet list, a narrative, or maybe a structured template? Once I know these details, I can help you craft something your team will actually read and find useful.
TEAM UPDATE - WEEK OF JULY 28 PROGRESS • Shipped customer onboarding flow (Jira-18): 40% faster signup, tested with 50 beta users • Closed Q3 deal with BigCorp Inc ($120k ARR) • Hired 2 engineers for platform team (start Aug 15) • Resolved 94% of support tickets within SLA (target: 90%) PLANS • Launch v2.1 mobile app Monday (iOS App Store review in progress) • Sales kickoff for Q4 campaigns (kickoff call Thursday 2pm) • Finish accessibility audit for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance • One-on-ones all week — no all-hands, async update only PROBLEMS • Payment gateway latency (Stripe API ~2s response time) — mitigation: local caching, escalated to Stripe support • Outbound sales sequence hitting Gmail spam folder (22% deliverability) — rewrite copy, add DMARC, segmenting list • Datacenter migration delayed by 1 week (dependency on network team) — new timeline: Aug 8 COMING NEXT • User research interviews: 5 scheduled for next week • Pricing strategy review with finance (prep doc by Wed) • Retrospective from last launch — all-hands Friday 4pm ASK Can we get legal review on updated terms of service by EOD Thursday? Link in Notion. ATTACHMENTS Full sprint board | Q3 metrics dashboard | Q4 roadmap
About this skill
Weekly updates get skimmed or ignored when they list activity, hide slips, and bury the one decision you need. This skill turns your notes, tickets, and threads into a short Progress, Plans, Problems update that a manager can act on in a minute.
What it does
- Rewrites activity as outcomes with evidence, and never says shipped when it only merged
- Keeps Problems honest and gives every problem an impact and next step
- Pulls asks onto their own line with who and by when
- Converts 'next week' into real dates and checks last week's plans for silent slips
- Sizes the update to the reader: one screen for a manager, 5-8 lines for leadership
What you get
A ready-to-send 3P update, or a reusable team format with one filled example, with [confirm] markers where your notes are thin.
Best for
Engineers, team leads, and managers who send a weekly update to their manager or leadership.
SKILL.md preview
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name: team-communications
description: Turn a week of raw notes, tickets, commits, and Slack threads into a recurring team update your manager or leadership actually reads - 3P (Progress, Plans, Problems) or a weekly team digest - with outcomes instead of activity, honest problems, asks called out, absolute dates, and a length matched to the reader. Use when the user says "write my weekly update", "summarize what my team did this week for my boss", "draft our 3P", "turn these notes into a status update", "make this update shorter for leadership", "my updates never get read", or "what should go in Problems?".
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# 3P and Weekly Team Update Writer
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