status-updates SKILL.md skillA
status-updates from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/status-updates@git:20260720.adc529aPins git:20260720.adc529a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/career-communication/status-updates/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.adc529a, committed Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 3,266 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Write status updates with progress, risk, and asks calibrated to the audience, honoring the no-surprises rule. Use when reporting project status upward or fixing updates nobody reads.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Status updates A status update manages other people's models of your work. The test: after reading, does the audience know whether to relax, help, or escalate: in under a minute? ## Method 1. **Lead with the state, in one line.** Green/yellow/red (or on-track/at-risk/blocked) plus the headline: "Yellow: migration on track for the 15th, but vendor API limits may slip the final cutover a week." Readers triage from line one; burying the state under narrative is how yellow projects surprise people as red (see exec-briefing for the highest-altitude version). 2. **Structure as progress / plan / risks / asks.** What moved since last update (outcomes, not activity: "cutover rehearsed clean" beats "worked on migration"); what happens next period; what could go wrong and what you are doing about it; what you need from whom, by when. Empty risk sections on hard projects read as not looking (see tradeoff-analysis instincts). 3. **Enforce no-surprises upward.** Bad news travels *ahead* of the written cadence: the moment a date is credibly at risk, the stakeholder hears it directly with your …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/status-updates@sha256:feb9d2f9f484f205The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.adc529a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jbqt3hoff2nzgl3m)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 20, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jbqt3hoff2nzgl3m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/status-updates GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/feb9d2f9f484f205a4385eb8d4193c6c2454775ecbcbca02d5a8ef46104109d8
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