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Skill 87 of 200

Status Report

Generate a status report with KPIs, risks, and action items.

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Install

$ npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill status-report

$ npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

» /plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md (opens in a new tab).

Generate a polished status report for leadership or stakeholders. See the risk-assessment skill for risk matrix frameworks and severity definitions.

Usage

/status-report $ARGUMENTS

Output

## Status Report: [Project/Team] — [Period]
**Author:** [Name] | **Date:** [Date]

### Executive Summary
[3-4 sentence overview — what's on track, what needs attention, key wins]

### Overall Status: 🟢 On Track / 🟡 At Risk / 🔴 Off Track

### Key Metrics
| Metric | Target | Actual | Trend | Status |
|--------|--------|--------|-------|--------|
| [KPI] | [Target] | [Actual] | [up/down/flat] | 🟢/🟡/🔴 |

### Accomplishments This Period
- [Win 1]
- [Win 2]

### In Progress
| Item | Owner | Status | ETA | Notes |
|------|-------|--------|-----|-------|
| [Item] | [Person] | [Status] | [Date] | [Context] |

### Risks and Issues
| Risk/Issue | Impact | Mitigation | Owner |
|------------|--------|------------|-------|
| [Risk] | [Impact] | [What we're doing] | [Who] |

### Decisions Needed
| Decision | Context | Deadline | Recommended Action |
|----------|---------|----------|--------------------|
| [Decision] | [Why it matters] | [When] | [What I recommend] |

### Next Period Priorities
1. [Priority 1]
2. [Priority 2]
3. [Priority 3]

If Connectors Available

If ~~project tracker is connected:

Pull project status, completed items, and upcoming milestones automatically
Identify at-risk items and overdue tasks

If ~~chat is connected:

Scan recent team discussions for decisions and blockers to include
Offer to post the finished report to a channel

If ~~calendar is connected:

Reference key meetings and decisions from the reporting period

Tips

Lead with the headline — Busy leaders read the first 3 lines. Make them count.
Be honest about risks — Surfacing issues early builds trust. Surprises erode it.
Make decisions easy — For each decision needed, provide context and a recommendation.

About this skill

Trigger

Generate a status report with KPIs, risks, and action items. Use when writing a weekly or monthly update for leadership, summarizing project health with green/yellow/red status, surfacing risks and decisions that need stakeholder attention, or turning a pile of project tracker activity into a readable narrative.

The verbatim description from this skill’s front matter — the string an agent matches on to decide whether to load it.

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How this issue was made

Source

github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins, branch main, last pushed 23 September 2026.

Licence

Apache-2.0 — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

200 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 27 distinct layouts observed: bio-research/skills/*/SKILL.md, cowork-plugin-management/skills/*/SKILL.md, customer-support/skills/*/SKILL.md, data/skills/*/SKILL.md, design/skills/*/SKILL.md, engineering/skills/*/SKILL.md, enterprise-search/skills/*/SKILL.md, finance/skills/*/SKILL.md, human-resources/skills/*/SKILL.md, legal/skills/*/SKILL.md, marketing/skills/*/SKILL.md, operations/skills/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/apollo/skills/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/brand-voice/skills/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/common-room/skills/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/slack/skills/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/contact-center/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/meeting-sdk/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/meeting-sdk/web/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/video-sdk/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/virtual-agent/*/SKILL.md, partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/zoom-mcp/*/SKILL.md, pdf-viewer/skills/*/SKILL.md, product-management/skills/*/SKILL.md, productivity/skills/*/SKILL.md, sales/skills/*/SKILL.md.

Issue colours

Resolved from the awesome-design-md registry — hue 39°, chroma 0.113. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Typefaces

Display: Copernicus is not available to us; set in Newsreader.

We never load a typeface at request time from a third-party origin, so a brand face we do not already self-host is substituted rather than fetched.

Heading repairs

1 repair applied to this skill so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Removed “/status-report”, a leading h1 that duplicated the skill title.

Spec compliance

53 editorial notes across 41 of 200 skills. They are printed in the margin of each skill rather than as errors here.

and 31 more.

Images

Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Marketplace

A plugin manifest is published at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json by Anthropic, declaring 120 plugins. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md (opens in a new tab).

Generate a polished status report for leadership or stakeholders. See the risk-assessment skill for risk matrix frameworks and severity definitions.

Usage

/status-report $ARGUMENTS

Output

## Status Report: [Project/Team] — [Period]
**Author:** [Name] | **Date:** [Date]

### Executive Summary
[3-4 sentence overview — what's on track, what needs attention, key wins]

### Overall Status: 🟢 On Track / 🟡 At Risk / 🔴 Off Track

### Key Metrics
| Metric | Target | Actual | Trend | Status |
|--------|--------|--------|-------|--------|
| [KPI] | [Target] | [Actual] | [up/down/flat] | 🟢/🟡/🔴 |

### Accomplishments This Period
- [Win 1]
- [Win 2]

### In Progress
| Item | Owner | Status | ETA | Notes |
|------|-------|--------|-----|-------|
| [Item] | [Person] | [Status] | [Date] | [Context] |

### Risks and Issues
| Risk/Issue | Impact | Mitigation | Owner |
|------------|--------|------------|-------|
| [Risk] | [Impact] | [What we're doing] | [Who] |

### Decisions Needed
| Decision | Context | Deadline | Recommended Action |
|----------|---------|----------|--------------------|
| [Decision] | [Why it matters] | [When] | [What I recommend] |

### Next Period Priorities
1. [Priority 1]
2. [Priority 2]
3. [Priority 3]

If Connectors Available

If ~~project tracker is connected:

Pull project status, completed items, and upcoming milestones automatically
Identify at-risk items and overdue tasks

If ~~chat is connected:

Scan recent team discussions for decisions and blockers to include
Offer to post the finished report to a channel

If ~~calendar is connected:

Reference key meetings and decisions from the reporting period

Tips

Lead with the headline — Busy leaders read the first 3 lines. Make them count.
Be honest about risks — Surfacing issues early builds trust. Surprises erode it.
Make decisions easy — For each decision needed, provide context and a recommendation.