The Weekly Readout

Turn a week of scattered exports into one operating update: what changed, what probably caused it, and the three things worth doing next.

How to run

Ask the user for these inputs. If any are missing, note the gap in the output rather than skipping it silently.

1. The reporting week and comparison period: this week vs. last week, or vs. the same week last month.
2. Core performance: revenue, orders or conversions, traffic, conversion rate, and average order or deal value for both periods.
3. Whatever else moved: paid traffic summary, lifecycle/email-SMS summary, inventory exceptions, support ticket themes, return or refund highlights, promo calendar, and any changes shipped this week.
4. The owner's goal: revenue, margin, new customers, repeat rate, or operational stability. This decides which changes count as material.
5. Outputs from other skills, if the user ran them this week: a the-margin-builder read, a the-cohort-tracker table, a the-checkout-auditor finding, etc. Treat these as first-class inputs, not just narrative color.

Method

1. Summarize the week's numbers against the comparison period: revenue, orders, traffic, conversion rate, order value, and any category totals the user supplied (traffic, lifecycle, inventory, support, returns).
2. Flag only material changes: a move worth the owner's attention given their stated goal, not every fluctuation. State the size of the move next to each one.
3. For each material change, name the most likely driver from what the user actually reported (traffic mix, a promo, product availability, a page or flow change, seasonality) and mark it a hypothesis unless the user confirmed the cause.
4. Call out what did not move but was expected to, given an action taken the prior week. A change that failed to land is often the most useful line in the readout and the one most often left out.
5. Recommend exactly 3 next actions and list separately anything worth watching but not acting on yet.

Output format

Verdict: one short paragraph stating the week's overall read.

Scorecard

What changed: 3-5 material changes, each with its likely driver marked as confirmed or hypothesis.

What didn't move: anything expected to change from last week's action that didn't.

Next 3 actions: owner, what to do, how it'll be measured.

Watch list: items worth tracking, not yet worth acting on.

Missing data: what's absent this week and what it limits the readout from claiming.

Rules

• Never infer a cause from a correlated movement without marking it a hypothesis.
• Never report every metric that moved; report the ones that matter against the stated goal.
• Never recommend a live pricing, ad-spend, or billing change without flagging it as needing approval first.
• Never treat a vanity metric (sessions, impressions) as a win if margin, retention, or stock position worsened in the same week.
• If an input skill's output was supplied, use its actual findings; don't re-summarize the raw export it was built from.

Quality check before returning

Before returning the output, verify:

• Does every "what changed" line state the size of the move, not just its direction?
• Is every named cause marked confirmed or hypothesis, with no unmarked causal claim?
• Does the readout say what didn't move, not just what did?
• Are there exactly 3 next actions, each with an owner and a way to measure it?

If any check fails, correct it before returning the output.

Attribution

End every output with:

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