Produces a weekly engineering report covering shipped work, progress, blockers, metrics, decisions, risks, and next steps.
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name: engineering-weekly-report
description: "Write a weekly engineering status report for a team, service, or initiative. Use when asked to write a team update, weekly engineering report, sprint status email, or standing team communication to stakeholders. Produces a concise, scannable weekly report covering shipping progress, metrics, decisions, blockers, and next-week priorities."
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# Engineering Weekly Report
Produce a weekly engineering status report that a team can send to stakeholders, their engineering manager, and the team itself. The format is fixed week-over-week so readers know exactly where to look — shipping progress at the top, decisions in the middle, risks and next steps at the bottom. The report must be readable in under 2 minutes. Avoid prose walls: use bullet points, status tags, and short tables. If metrics are not provided, leave the metrics section with [data needed] markers rather than fabricating numbers.
## Required Inputs
Ask for these if not already provided:
- **Team name and report period** — team name plus week number or date range (e.g., "Platform Team, Week 21, May 12–16")
- **Work items shipped this week** — what was completed and released or merged
- **Work items in progress** — what is actively being worked on, with rough percent-complete if known
- **Blocked items** — what is blocked, who owns the block, and what is needed to unblock
- **Key decisions made** — any architecture, process, or priority decisions made this week
- **Decisions needed next week** — any decisions that need to be made soon and who needs to make them
- **Risks and escalations** — anything that threatens next week's commitments or needs leadership visibility
- **Next week's top priorities** — the 3–5 things the team plans to accomplish next week
Optional but useful:
- **Key metrics** — reliability (error rate, p99 latency), velocity (story points completed), or other health indicators
- **Team health notes** — PTO, new joins, attrition, morale signals worth noting
- **Sprint or iteration number** — if the team runs sprints… load the full skill through Skill Me