Generate daily/weekly standup reports and changelogs from git history and project activity.
Category
Difficulty & Skill
Overview
The dreaded standup question: "What did you work on?" You know you were productive, but reconstructing a coherent summary from scattered commits, branch switches, and context changes is painful. Daily reports interrupt flow. Weekly reports require archaeology through your git log.
OpenClaw's Git Work Reporter generates polished work reports by analyzing your commit history. It groups commits by feature or fix, summarizes changes in human-readable language, and outputs a formatted report ready for Slack, Jira, or email. Your commit history becomes your timesheet — automatically.
This is not just for individual contributors. Engineering managers use it to generate team-wide sprint summaries, release changelogs, and performance review inputs. If you write git commits, you already have the data — this skill turns it into documentation.
How It Works
- Specify a time range — today, this week, last sprint, or a custom date range
- The agent reads your git commit history across all branches in the repository
- Commits are grouped by category: features, bug fixes, refactoring, documentation, tests
- Each group gets a human-readable summary that explains what changed and why
- A formatted report is generated in your preferred format — Markdown, Slack blocks, or plain text
- For team reports, it can aggregate across multiple contributors with per-person sections
Example Scenarios
- Monday morning standup — the agent generates a summary of last Friday's work from your commits in 5 seconds instead of 5 minutes of trying to remember
- Sprint retro needs a summary of what the team shipped — the agent produces a categorized changelog across all contributors
- A client asks for a progress update — the agent generates a professional weekly report from your project's commit history
- Release day — the agent compiles a complete changelog from all commits between the last tag and HEAD
- Performance review season — the agent generates a quarterly contribution summary showing features shipped, bugs fixed, and code reviews completed
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it work with any Git hosting provider?
Yes. It analyzes your local git history, so it works with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or self-hosted repositories.
What if my commit messages are bad?
The agent reads both the commit message and the diff to understand what changed. Even with terse messages like "fix bug", it can generate a meaningful summary by analyzing the code changes.
Can it generate reports for a specific branch?
Yes. You can filter by branch, date range, author, or any combination. It also supports comparing branches to show what a feature branch adds.