Run a weekly review that actually changes what you do next week
Most weekly reviews are a status check that changes nothing.
- Use it for
- Anyone who's tried weekly reviews and had them fizzle into a habit-tracker checkbox.
Weekly reviews tend to decay into a status report on yourself — what got done, what didn't — without the harder second step of actually changing anything based on it. A review that ends at "here's what happened" is just a log; the version that's worth the time asks what the log implies about how you should run things differently, and commits to one specific change, not a vague resolution to "do better."
This prompt structures the review around that second step explicitly.
When not to use this
If you're not tracking anything week to week yet, there's nothing to review — start with a simple log for a couple weeks first. This is for once you have real data about how a week actually went.
Did this work?
You walk away with one specific change to how you'll run next week — not just a list of what happened this week.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.