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PROMPT · WORK

Write a weekly status update people actually read.

The template your manager will forward — not because it's polished, because it's useful.

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USE CASE

It's Friday afternoon. Slack pings you for the weekly update. Your options are (a) skip it, (b) write a two-line 'still working on the same stuff', or (c) write the update your manager can forward without editing. This is option (c).

THE PROMPT
Write me a weekly status update for my manager. I'll paste bullets of what I did this week below. Structure the update in exactly this format, in Markdown:

**Shipped**
- One bullet per thing that reached completion. Keep it factual — no "I'm proud to say".

**In flight**
- One bullet per thing that's mid-progress. Include the specific next step and when it lands.

**Blocked or at risk**
- One bullet per thing that is stuck or slipping. Name what would unblock it. If nothing is blocked, write "Nothing." — do not manufacture drama.

**What I need from you**
- Zero to three specific asks of the manager. Each one is a decision, a signoff, or a piece of context, not a status question I could look up myself.

No opening greeting. No closing pleasantry. Under 250 words total. If a section has nothing in it, write "Nothing." — do not skip the section.

Here's the raw material:

[PASTE BULLETS HERE]
EXAMPLE OUTPUT
**Shipped** - Cut streaming latency from 1.8s to 400ms on the demo endpoint (Anthropic API config change). - Landed the /apps page copy and the status page. - Merged the M3.3 content wave. **In flight** - M3.4 content — prompts, help, learn. Landing Monday. - Playground caps not yet A/B tested for the right free-message count. Deciding by Thursday. **Blocked or at risk** - OG image generation for dynamic routes — @vercel/og is on M3.5, blocked on a decision about whether we want image caching. **What I need from you** - Signoff on the free-message cap at 3, or a case for 5. - OK to spend two days in M3.5 on font subsetting even if Lighthouse doesn't strictly demand it.
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