weekly-review
cursor/plugins
Generate a weekly work summary from your commits, categorized by bugfix, tech debt, and new features.
What is weekly-review?
Automatically synthesizes your authored commits from the past week into a concise executive summary. Groups changes into meaningful bullets and classifies work by type (bugfix, tech debt, net-new functionality). Use this for status updates, retrospectives, or sprint planning.
- Extracts commits authored by you in the last 7-10 days from the primary branch
- Excludes merge commits to focus on substantive work
- Groups related changes into 2-5 concise summary bullets
- Classifies work into bug fixes, tech debt, and new features
- Produces executive-readable output suitable for status reports
How to install weekly-review
npx skills add https://github.com/cursor/plugins --skill weekly-review- Git repository with commit history
- Git user email configured in repo (git config user.email)
How to use weekly-review
- 1.Run the skill in your repository context
- 2.Verify your git user email is set (the skill will prompt if missing)
- 3.Review the generated 2-5 bullet summary and classification paragraph
- 4.Copy the output into your status update, retro notes, or planning document
Use cases
- Generate a weekly status update for your manager or team
- Prepare talking points for sprint retrospectives or planning meetings
- Document your contributions for performance reviews or promotion discussions
- Create a quick recap for async team standups
- Individual developers tracking their weekly output
- Engineering managers summarizing team contributions
- Team leads preparing sprint retrospectives
weekly-review FAQ
The skill will ask you to set it first using git config user.email before proceeding.
It collects commits from the last 7-10 days on your primary branch.
No, merge commits are excluded to focus on substantive authored work.
The skill produces a fixed classification (bugfix, tech debt, net-new), but you can edit the output after generation.
The skill will generate an empty or minimal summary; you can note that in your status update.
Full instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from cursor/plugins.
name: weekly-review description: Produce a weekly synthesis of authored commits with highlights by bugfix, tech debt, and net-new work
Weekly review
Trigger
Need a weekly recap of shipped work for status updates, retros, or planning.
Workflow
- Determine the current git user email from repo config.
- Collect authored commits from the last 7-10 days on the primary branch context.
- Exclude merge commits.
- Group meaningful changes into 2-5 concise bullets.
- Add a short classification paragraph covering:
- likely bug fixes
- likely tech debt work
- likely net-new functionality
Guardrails
- Keep the recap short and executive-readable.
- Base claims only on commit history and diffs.
- If git email is missing, ask the user to set it before proceeding.
Output
- 2-5 bullet weekly summary
- Brief classification paragraph (bugfix / tech debt / net-new)
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