Week Prep

Week Prep

Generate a briefing for the current week with calendar overview, carry-forward items, due tasks, and projects needing attention.

Related Skills

• /monday: Combined Monday flow (creates folder + briefing in one pass). Recommended for Mondays.
• /week-prep: This skill. Generates briefing only (read-only, can run any day).

This skill assumes the week folder already exists. If it doesn't, suggest running /monday first.

Steps

1. Determine current week:

   • Calculate ISO week number and date range (Mon-Fri)
   • Find current week folder: YYYY/w##-mm-dd/
   • If folder doesn't exist, prompt to run /monday first

2. Pull calendar events:

   • Use mcp__gworkspace-mcp__calendar_events
   • Time range: Monday 00:00 to Friday 23:59 of current week
   • Include attendees for context
   • Group by day for display

3. Find carry-forward items:

   • Locate previous week's report
   • Read "Carry Forward" section
   • Also check current week's report for existing carry-forward

4. Scan for due tasks:

   • Grep for Tasks emoji 📅 YYYY-MM-DD in these locations only:
     • projects/ folder
     • Current week folder (YYYY/w##-mm-dd/)
     • Previous week folder
   • Filter to dates within current week (Mon-Sun)
   • Include file path for context

5. Check projects needing attention:

   • Read projects/index.md (contains summary of project health)
   • Only read individual project files if flagged as overdue or blocked
   • Flag projects where next_review is:
     • Past (overdue)
     • This week (due soon)
   • Also flag projects with status: blocked

6. Semantic context for calendar (qmd):

   • For each meeting with a person, use qmd_search MCP tool: query "[person name]", limit 3
   • This surfaces recent context to prep for meetings
   • Focus on people you're meeting this week

7. Check Slack activity (optional):

   • Use mcp__playground-slack-mcp__get_messages
   • Action: my_messages, last 24-48 hours
   • Flag items that may need response
   • Skip if Slack MCP is unavailable

8. Identify deep work windows:

   • Analyze calendar for gaps
   • Find blocks of 2+ hours without meetings
   • Suggest these as focus time

9. Output the briefing:

   • Display all sections in scannable format
   • Do not write to files (this is a read-only briefing)

qmd Tools

Use these MCP tools for semantic context (preferred over Bash):

• qmd_search: query "[person]", limit 5 (find recent notes about a person)
• qmd_deep_search: query "blocked waiting on open items", limit 5 (find open items)

Bash fallback (if MCP unavailable):

source ~/.zshrc && qmd search "[person]" -n 5 --md
source ~/.zshrc && qmd query "blocked waiting on open items" -n 5 --md

Output Format

## Week Prep: W## (Mon [date] - Fri [date])

### Calendar at a Glance

| Day | Events |
|-----|--------|
| Mon | [Event 1] (10am), [Event 2] (2pm) |
| Tue | [Event] (11am) |
| Wed | No meetings |
| Thu | [Event 1] (9am), [Event 2] (3pm) |
| Fri | [Event] (10am) |

### Carry Forward

From last week's report:
- [ ] Item 1 📅 [date]
- [ ] Item 2

### Tasks Due This Week

- [ ] Task from [[project]] 📅 [date] (in `file.md`)
- [ ] Task 📅 [date]

### Projects Needing Attention

- **[[project-name]]**: Review overdue by [X] days
- **[[project-name]]**: Status is `blocked`

### Deep Work Windows

Based on your calendar, you have focus time available:
- **Mon**: 8-10am (before first meeting)
- **Wed**: All day (no meetings scheduled)
- **Fri**: 1-5pm (afternoon clear)

### Slack Check

- [X] mentions in last 24h
- Notable: [brief summary if anything urgent]

Notes

• This is a read-only skill: it outputs a briefing but does not modify files
• Calendar uses natural language dates for the MCP tool (not ISO timestamps, which fail silently)
• If calendar or Slack MCPs fail, skip those sections gracefully and note the skip
• Keep the briefing scannable: prioritize structure over prose
• Flag anything that looks urgent or overdue

Session Context Hint

If you just ran /monday in this same conversation, reuse the previous week's report content from that execution rather than re-reading it. The carry-forward items were already extracted.