How do I install the Weekly Self Review skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add themarmack/weekly-self-review in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Weekly Self Review safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Weekly Self Review?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Weekly Self Review free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Weekly Self Review?

themarmack (@themarmack) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Weekly Self Review by themarmack — Agent Skill

Name: Weekly Self Review
Author: themarmack

Weekly Self Review

End-of-week personal-reflection skill, distinct from weekly-review (which surveys the vault's writes). This is about the **user's** week — what they worked on, what energized vs drained, what they want to focus on next week, what's nagging at them. Outputs a private reflection note that doesn't aim for objectivity. Use when the user asks for a personal end-of-week reflection or self-review — typically Friday afternoon or Sunday evening — NOT when they ask for the weekly review of vault activity, which routes to `weekly-review` (the scheduled vault retrospective).

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weekly-self-review

The personal-reflection sibling of weekly-review. Where weekly-review surveys what the vault accumulated, this skill surveys what the user experienced. Different audience (just the user), different voice (subjective, frank), different goal (personal calibration, not program intelligence).

When to use

Friday afternoon or Sunday evening end-of-week reflection.
Periodic recalibration after a stretch of intense work.
Pre-vacation handoff prep — what's nagging that should be written down.

When NOT to use

Vault-content weekly synthesis → weekly-review.
Stakeholder communication → stakeholder-update-writer.
Decision capture → decision-memo-writer or quick-capture (decision format).

Reflection prompts

The skill walks the user through 5 standard prompts:

What worked this week? — moments worth replicating.
What drained? — patterns worth tweaking.
What did I learn? — knowledge worth keeping.
What's nagging? — open loops worth surfacing.
Where do I want to focus next week? — intentional, not aspirational.

Output structure

# Weekly Self Review — {week ending date}

[5 prompts and responses]

## Action items from this review
- {if any concrete actions emerge}

## Calibration
- Energy/satisfaction: {1-10}
- Trend vs prior weeks: {↑ / ↓ / →}

As the final step, write the note via vault-writer.write_insight to vault/insights/YYYY-MM-DD-self-review.md (the slug self-review keeps these distinct from weekly-review). The reflection is for the user's future self — it only pays off if it lands in the vault.

Acceptance test

SKILL.md describes the 5-prompt structure. Live exercise deferred — the next Friday is the natural fixture.

---name: weekly-self-reviewdescription: End-of-week personal-reflection skill, distinct from weekly-review (which surveys the vault's writes). This is about the **user's** week — what they worked on, what energized vs drained, what they want to focus on next week, what's nagging at them. Outputs a private reflection note that doesn't aim for objectivity. Use when the user asks for a personal end-of-week reflection or self-review — typically Friday afternoon or Sunday evening — NOT when they ask for the weekly review of vault activity, which routes to `weekly-review` (the scheduled vault retrospective).---# weekly-self-reviewThe personal-reflection sibling of `weekly-review`. Where `weekly-review` surveys what the *vault* accumulated, this skill surveys what the *user* experienced. Different audience (just the user), different voice (subjective, frank), different goal (personal calibration, not program intelligence).## When to use- Friday afternoon or Sunday evening end-of-week reflection.- Periodic recalibration after a stretch of intense work.- Pre-vacation handoff prep — what's nagging that should be written down.## When NOT to use- Vault-content weekly synthesis → `weekly-review`.- Stakeholder communication → `stakeholder-update-writer`.- Decision capture → `decision-memo-writer` or `quick-capture` (decision format).## Reflection promptsThe skill walks the user through 5 standard prompts:1. **What worked this week?** — moments worth replicating.2. **What drained?** — patterns worth tweaking.3. **What did I learn?** — knowledge worth keeping.4. **What's nagging?** — open loops worth surfacing.5. **Where do I want to focus next week?** — intentional, not aspirational.## Output structure```markdown# Weekly Self Review — {week ending date}[5 prompts and responses]## Action items from this review- {if any concrete actions emerge}## Calibration- Energy/satisfaction: {1-10}- Trend vs prior weeks: {↑ / ↓ / →}```As the final step, write the note via `vault-writer.write_insight` to `vault/insights/YYYY-MM-DD-self-review.md` (the slug `self-review` keeps these distinct from `weekly-review`). The reflection is for the user's future self — it only pays off if it lands in the vault.## Acceptance testSKILL.md describes the 5-prompt structure. Live exercise deferred — the next Friday is the natural fixture.

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