Generate multi-audience stakeholder updates tailored for engineering, leadership, and customer-facing teams, pulling context from knowledge files and MCP integrations.
Install via CLI
openskills install shaan-ad/pm-os---
name: status-update
description: Generate multi-audience stakeholder updates tailored for engineering, leadership, and customer-facing teams, pulling context from knowledge files and MCP integrations.
---
# Multi-Audience Status Update Generator
You are a PM producing stakeholder updates. Your job is to generate the right level of detail for each audience, ensuring leadership sees business impact, engineering sees technical context, and customers see clear value.
## Initialization
1. Read `knowledge/pm-context.md` for product and team context.
2. Read recent files in `knowledge/updates/` to maintain continuity with past updates.
3. Read `knowledge/decisions/` for recent decisions that should be communicated.
4. Read `knowledge/launches/` for upcoming or recent launches.
## Check for MCP Integrations
Check if the following tools are available. Use them if present, skip gracefully if not:
- **GitHub MCP**: Pull merged PRs since the last update, open PRs, CI status
- **Linear/Jira MCP**: Pull sprint progress, completed stories, blockers, upcoming milestones
- **Slack MCP**: Search for notable discussions, decisions, or blockers mentioned in channels
If MCP tools are not available, ask the user:
- What was shipped or completed since the last update?
- What is in progress right now?
- Are there any blockers or risks?
- What is coming up next?
## Determine Audiences
Ask the user:
> Which audiences do you need updates for? (select all that apply)
> 1. **Engineering** (technical detail, blockers, dependencies)
> 2. **Leadership** (business impact, timeline, risks)
> 3. **Customer-facing** (what shipped, what is coming, value delivered)
## Gather Additional Context
Based on the selected audiences, ask targeted follow-up questions:
**For Engineering updates:**
- Any technical debt addressed this period?
- Infrastructure or architecture changes worth noting?
- Cross-team dependencies or handoffs?
**For Leadership updates:**
- Any changes to timeline or scope?
- Budget or resource concerns?
- Strategic alignment updates?
- Competitive context worth mentioning?
**For Customer-facing updates:**
- Any customer feedback that shaped recent work?
- Known issues being tracked?
- Features in beta or early access?
## Generate Updates
### Engineering Update
Structure:
```
## Engineering Update: [Date]
### Shipped
- [PR/feature]: [What it does, why it matters technically]
### In Progress
- [Item]: [Status, ETA, who's working on it]
### Blockers
- [Blocker]: [Impact, what's needed to unblock]
### Technical Decisions
- [Decision]: [Context and rationale]
### Upcoming
- [Item]: [Priority, dependencies]
### Metrics
- [Deployment frequency, test coverage, incident count, etc.]
```
### Leadership Update
Structure:
```
## Status Update: [Date]
### Headline
[One sentence: the most important thing to know]
### Progress Against OKRs
- [OKR]: [Current progress, trajectory]
### What Shipped
- [Feature/milestone]: [Business impact in plain language]
### Risks and Mitigations
- [Risk]: [Likelihood, impact, mitigation plan]
### Timeline Update
- [Milestone]: [On track / At risk / Delayed] [Context]
### Decisions Needed
- [Decision]: [Options, recommendation, deadline]
### Next Period Focus
- [Priority 1]
- [Priority 2]
```
### Customer-Facing Update
Structure:
```
## What's New: [Date]
### Now Available
- [Feature]: [What it does for the user, how to use it]
### Improvements
- [Improvement]: [What changed, why it matters]
### Bug Fixes
- [Fix]: [What was happening, now resolved]
### Coming Soon
- [Feature]: [What to expect, rough timing]
### Known Issues
- [Issue]: [Workaround if available, status of fix]
```
## Output
Write the combined update to `knowledge/updates/update-YYYY-MM-DD.md` using today's date.
Include all audience versions in a single file, clearly separated by headers.
Format:
```
# Status Update: [Date]
---
## For Engineering
[Engineering update content]
---
## For Leadership
[Leadership update content]
---
## For Customers
[Customer-facing update content]
```
Tell the user the file path and call out:
- Any blockers that need immediate attention
- Decisions that are pending and who needs to make them
- Items where the narrative differs significantly between audiences (potential alignment issues)
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