Official skill · Operations and admin
Weekly 3P update (Progress, Plans, Problems)
Writes a weekly Progress, Plans, Problems update a reader takes in within 60 seconds, with numbers and last week's plans accounted for. Use it when you owe leadership or a channel a weekly team or project update.
AI skill
Have your AI write your weekly update in 60 seconds of reading
14 days free · No card needed
Works in Claude, ChatGPT, and coding agents. On Team and Business, the official skill in your pod updates itself when we improve it.
When to use it
- You owe leadership or a channel a weekly team or project update
- A client wants the short version of where things stand
What you give it
- Team or project name and dates
- Slack posts, closed tasks, notes, or metrics
- Last week's update (optional)
What you get
A 4-line update: a heading with team and dates, then Progress, Plans, and Problems in 1 to 3 sentences each.
How it works
- Set the scope
- Gather from where the work happened
- Pick what matters
- Check last week's Plans
- Write 1 to 3 sentences per section
- Add one ask, if there is one
Example
What you give it
Billing team, 10 to 14 March. Shipped annual plans on Wednesday; 18 customers switched so far. Refund flow redesign is in review. Next week: send the annual plan email to all monthly customers, start invoicing PDFs. Waiting on legal for the new refund wording since last Monday; we need their answer by Wednesday to ship the redesign next week. Last week's plan "fix VAT rounding" got done Tuesday.
What you get back (the start of it)
💳 Billing (10–14 March) Progress: Annual plans went live on Wednesday and 18 customers have switched. The VAT rounding fix shipped Tuesday. The refund flow redesign is in review. Plans: Send the annual plan email to all monthly customers and start work on invoice PDFs. Problems: The new refund wording has waited on legal since 10 March; we need an answer by Wednesday to ship the redesign next week.
The rest of this output, the full steps and the checks the AI runs before it answers are in your pod once you add the skill.
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Changelog
- v1.0.1 · · Example: the input now says the annual plan email goes to all monthly customers and that legal's answer is needed by Wednesday to ship the redesign next week, so the output no longer states either without a source.
- v1.0.0 · · First release, adapted from anthropics/skills internal-comms.
Sources
- anthropics/skills internal-comms: 3P updates guideline (read 2026-11-04)
- Weekdone: Plans, Progress, Problems (PPP) methodology (read 2026-11-04)
Adapted from anthropics/skills: internal-comms (examples/3p-updates.md), licensed Apache-2.0. Changes: Rewritten for non-engineering teams with steps, a plan-carryover check, an example, and a checklist.