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Save reusable instructions for your weekly update

Each week brings new facts, while your way of deciding what matters may stay useful. A skill saves instructions your assistant can load for a recurring job. Saving one means choosing which parts of a working session should guide future runs, because the assistant reads whatever the skill contains as standing instructions. A client name left in it may keep appearing, and a one-off request to remove an empty section could become a permanent rule. Keep the reporting judgment in the skill and supply the current facts with each run. We’ll inspect the saved instructions and try a different week outside the setup conversation, where that earlier exchange cannot supply a missing rule.

For this practice, the update helps a business partner see what progressed and what needs attention. Its sections are Wins, Decisions, Waiting on me, and Next week. It bolds names and dates and flags a known wait over two days, drawing attention to a delay you can act on. Choose this format or adapt it to your reader before saving it. The assistant will ask for that choice, the reporting period and your notes, then create the skill and draft the first update. Compare the draft with the notes: a useful report needs the right facts and the decisions or delays your partner needs to see.

Once checked, this first update shows the format and checks the skill will reuse.

Prompt to try

Help me create weekly-update, a skill for drafting a weekly business update from notes. Before saving, ask who will read it and whether I want this practice format or changes: Wins, Decisions, Waiting on me, Next week; bold names and dates; flag items waiting on me for more than two days when the notes establish the wait; plain, direct prose. Ask for the reporting period and which available notes to use, or ask me to paste them. Save only the method I choose. Use skill-creator if available; otherwise help me create and install the skill through the supported method here. If you can only draft instructions, say they are not yet installed and explain the remaining action. Show where it was saved and how to start it. Then use it to draft the update. Preserve proposed, underway and completed status. Ask about missing facts or mark them not supplied; do not fill gaps from earlier weeks. Include a Monday priority only if my notes identify one. Do not send or publish the draft.
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Choose the format and supply the week's notes. Compare the draft's facts with those notes and check that no important decision or delay was dropped. Ask the assistant to correct any discrepancy.