Automated Weekly Project Status Updates with Claude Cowork

David Pickett

06 Mar 2026 — 1 min read

People: David and Joe

Idea: We built an automation that generates a weekly project status report by pulling activity from multiple data sources - no more chasing people down for updates every Friday.

Details:

A scheduled Claude Cowork task runs every Friday at noon, starting from our master Excel sheet of active projects
The Excel sheet tracks each project's name, status sources, Slack channel names, and search terms - so the agent knows where to look for each one
Cowork uses connectors to search and fetch updates from the last 7 days across Github repos, Granola meeting notes, Slack channels, and Google Drive/Gmail
It generates a new Word doc with bullet-pointed status summaries for each active project
If a project looks active but has zero activity in any of its sources for that week, we have a fallback plan
The planned fallback will use a Slack MCP action to ping the right person and ask for a quick status blurb covering that date range
This means no project falls through the cracks just because the work happened outside our tracked sources
We also got it working for multiple people - each person queries the data sources they personally have access to
A final agent combines all the individual results into one unified status doc for manual review before sharing

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