weekly-prep-brief

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Generate a single comprehensive weekly briefing that covers every external customer or prospect call in the next 7 days, with per-meeting account and contact research from Common Room.

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Weekly Prep Brief

Generate a single comprehensive weekly briefing that covers every external customer or prospect call in the next 7 days, with per-meeting account and contact research from Common Room.

Briefing Process

Step 1: Get the Week's External Meetings

Option A — Calendar connected: Use the ~~calendar connector to fetch all meetings scheduled in the next 7 days (or a user-specified range). Filter to keep only external meetings — those with attendees from outside your organization. Discard internal-only meetings, one-on-ones with colleagues, and recurring internal syncs.

Identify for each external meeting:

  • Company name
  • Meeting date and time
  • External attendee names and email addresses

Option B — No calendar connected: Ask the user: "To build your weekly prep brief, I'll need your upcoming external calls. Please list them: company name, date/time, and attendee names."

Accept freeform input and parse it into a structured list before proceeding.

Step 2: Confirm the Meeting List

Present the identified meetings to the user for confirmation before beginning research:

"Here are the external calls I found for this week. Let me know if anything's missing or should be excluded:

  • [Company] — [Day], [Time] — [Attendees]
  • ..."

This prevents wasted research on cancelled or incorrect meetings.

Step 3: Research Each Meeting

For each confirmed external meeting, run in parallel where possible:

  1. Account research — full account snapshot using the account-research skill
  2. Contact research — profile for each external attendee using the contact-research skill

Common Room data is the primary source. After CR research, run a quick recency check for each company — this is supplementary, not primary:

  • Search "[company name]" news scoped to the last 7 days
  • For executive attendees, search their name for recent public posts or interviews
  • Only include findings that are genuinely noteworthy (funding, leadership changes, major press). Don't pad the brief with generic news.

Depth calibration:

  • For high-priority accounts (large accounts, open opportunities, renewal risk), produce full depth research
  • For lower-priority or short meetings, produce abbreviated snapshots (3–4 bullets each)

Step 4: Synthesize the Weekly Brief

Compile all per-meeting research into a single structured document, sorted by meeting date/time.

Open with a brief week-level overview that flags:

  • Any accounts with urgent signals (at-risk, trial expiring, expansion opportunity)
  • Any meetings that need special preparation or executive involvement
  • Total external call count and estimated time commitment

Output Format

# Weekly Prep Brief — Week of [Date]

## Week Overview
[2–4 bullets: key themes, flagged priorities, call count]

---

## [Monday / Tuesday / etc.]

### [Company Name] — [Time]
**Attendees:** [Names and titles]
**Meeting type:** [Discovery / QBR / Renewal / Expansion / etc. — inferred if possible]

**Company Snapshot**
[4–5 bullets: account status, top signals, recent activity]

**Attendee Profiles**
- **[Name]** ([Title]): [2–3 bullets on their signals, persona, conversation angle]
- [Repeat per attendee]

**Top Signals This Week**
[2–3 most relevant signals for this specific call]

**This Week's News** [If notable news found]
[Only genuinely noteworthy findings — funding, leadership changes, major press]

**Recommended Objectives**
[1–2 sentences: what to accomplish in this meeting]

---

[Repeat per meeting, sorted by date/time]

When a Meeting Has Sparse Data

If Common Room returns limited data for a particular meeting's account or attendees, use a compressed format for that meeting instead of the full template:

### [Company Name] — [Time] ⚠️ Limited Data
**Attendees:** [Names and titles if known]
**Data available:** [What Common Room actually returned]

**Web Search Results**
[Findings from web search — company news, attendee LinkedIn profiles]

**Note:** Common Room has limited data on this account. The rep may want to check directly in CR or gather context from colleagues before this call.

Do not generate a full meeting prep section (company snapshot, signal highlights, talking points, recommended objectives) from sparse data. A short honest section is more useful than a fabricated full one.

Quality Standards

  • Keep each meeting section scannable — reps read these in the morning, often on mobile
  • Always sort by date/time ascending
  • Flag urgent situations prominently (risk, trial expiration, open opps) — don't bury them
  • If a meeting has very thin Common Room data, use the sparse-data format above — never fill the full template with guesses
  • Total brief should be readable in 10–15 minutes for a week with 4–6 meetings
  • Every fact must come from a tool call — no invented deal context, activity, or signals

Reference Files

  • references/briefing-guide.md — guidelines for structuring briefings, prioritization logic, and how to handle edge cases (cancelled meetings, new accounts with no data, etc.)
how to use weekly-prep-brief

How to use weekly-prep-brief on Cursor

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Prerequisites

Before installing skills in Cursor, ensure your development environment meets these requirements:

  • Cursor installed and configured on your development machine
  • Node.js version 16.0+ with npm package manager (verify with node --version)
  • Active project directory or workspace where you want to add weekly-prep-brief
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Execute installation command

Execute the skills CLI command in your project's root directory to begin installation:

$npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill weekly-prep-brief

The skills CLI fetches weekly-prep-brief from GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins and configures it for Cursor.

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Select Cursor when prompted

The CLI will show a list of available agents. Use arrow keys to navigate and space to select Cursor:

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│ • Cursor
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Verify installation

Confirm successful installation by checking the skill directory location:

.cursor/skills/weekly-prep-brief

Reload or restart Cursor to activate weekly-prep-brief. Access the skill through slash commands (e.g., /weekly-prep-brief) or your agent's skill management interface.

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Use Cases

User Story & Requirements Generation

Create detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and feature specs

Example

Generate user stories for 'password reset feature' with acceptance criteria, edge cases, and test scenarios

Reduce spec writing time by 50%, ensure comprehensive coverage

Competitive Analysis

Research competitors, compare features, identify gaps

Example

Analyze 5 competitor products, create feature comparison matrix, suggest differentiation opportunities

Complete competitive research in 2 hours instead of 2 days

Roadmap Prioritization

Evaluate features using frameworks (RICE, ICE, Kano) and create prioritized backlogs

Example

Score 20 feature ideas using RICE framework, generate prioritized roadmap with rationale

Make data-driven prioritization decisions faster

Stakeholder Communication

Draft PRDs, status updates, and stakeholder presentations

Example

Create executive summary of Q3 roadmap, monthly progress report, feature launch announcement

Save 3-5 hours/week on communication overhead

Implementation Guide

Prerequisites

  • Claude Desktop or compatible AI client
  • Access to product documentation and roadmap tools (Jira, Notion, etc.)
  • Understanding of product management frameworks (RICE, Jobs-to-be-Done, etc.)
  • Stakeholder contact information and communication channels

Time Estimate

30-60 minutes to see productivity improvements

Installation Steps

  1. 1.Install product management skill
  2. 2.Start with user story generation for known feature
  3. 3.Progress to competitive analysis: research 2-3 competitors
  4. 4.Use for roadmap prioritization: apply RICE/ICE scoring
  5. 5.Draft stakeholder communications and refine based on feedback
  6. 6.Build template library for recurring PM tasks
  7. 7.Share effective prompts with product team

Common Pitfalls

  • Not validating competitive research—verify facts before sharing
  • Accepting user stories without involving engineering team
  • Over-relying on frameworks without qualitative judgment
  • Not customizing outputs to company culture and communication style
  • Skipping stakeholder validation of generated requirements

Best Practices

✓ Do

  • +Validate research and competitive analysis with real data
  • +Collaborate with engineering when generating technical requirements
  • +Customize frameworks and templates to your company context
  • +Use skill for first drafts, refine with stakeholder input
  • +Document successful prompt patterns for PM tasks
  • +Combine AI efficiency with human judgment and intuition

✗ Don't

  • Don't publish competitive analysis without fact-checking
  • Don't finalize user stories without engineering review
  • Don't make prioritization decisions solely on AI scoring
  • Don't skip customer validation of generated requirements
  • Don't ignore company-specific context and culture

💡 Pro Tips

  • Provide context: company goals, constraints, customer feedback
  • Ask for alternatives: 'Show 3 ways to prioritize this roadmap'
  • Request stakeholder-specific formatting: 'Executive summary vs. engineering spec'
  • Use skill for 70% generation + 30% customization to company needs

When to Use This

✓ Use When

Use for user story writing, competitive research, roadmap prioritization, stakeholder communication, and PRD drafting. Best for reducing repetitive documentation and research work.

✗ Avoid When

Avoid for strategic product vision (requires deep customer empathy), pricing decisions (needs market and financial expertise), or when face-to-face customer discovery is more valuable than speed.

Learning Path

  1. 1Basic: user stories, feature specs, status updates
  2. 2Intermediate: competitive analysis, prioritization frameworks, PRDs
  3. 3Advanced: product strategy, go-to-market planning, OKR setting
  4. 4Expert: product vision, market positioning, business model innovation

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Ratings

4.647 reviews
  • Aarav Park· Dec 28, 2024

    I recommend weekly-prep-brief for anyone iterating fast on agent tooling; clear intent and a small, reviewable surface area.

  • Pratham Ware· Dec 20, 2024

    weekly-prep-brief is among the better-maintained entries we tried; worth keeping pinned for repeat workflows.

  • Dhruvi Jain· Dec 16, 2024

    weekly-prep-brief has been reliable in day-to-day use. Documentation quality is above average for community skills.

  • Ava Liu· Dec 12, 2024

    Useful defaults in weekly-prep-brief — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.

  • Zara Brown· Dec 12, 2024

    weekly-prep-brief has been reliable in day-to-day use. Documentation quality is above average for community skills.

  • Daniel Okafor· Nov 19, 2024

    Keeps context tight: weekly-prep-brief is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.

  • Oshnikdeep· Nov 7, 2024

    Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: weekly-prep-brief is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.

  • Yusuf Robinson· Nov 3, 2024

    We added weekly-prep-brief from the explainx registry; install was straightforward and the SKILL.md answered most questions upfront.

  • Aanya Chawla· Nov 3, 2024

    Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: weekly-prep-brief is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.

  • Ganesh Mohane· Oct 26, 2024

    We added weekly-prep-brief from the explainx registry; install was straightforward and the SKILL.md answered most questions upfront.

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