Cowork Team Report — Team Member Cowork Skill

Cowork Team Report is a two-part Microsoft Copilot Cowork solution that shows a team the ROI they're getting from Copilot — the hours saved and the dollar value of that time — and turns it into a tidy report that lands in everyone's inbox. It's made of two skills that work together through one shared Teams channel:

• Cowork Team Report — Team Member skill. Every teammate runs it on their own work. It turns their Copilot Cowork activity into a clear, de-identified summary — hours saved, the value of that time, the kinds of work Copilot helped with, and what they produced — and posts it as easy-to-read tables into the shared channel. Before publishing, each person reviews the sessions included and can remove any they do not want in the report; removed sessions and their work artifacts are never computed or posted. The post does not reveal the person's name or raw filenames, but retained work artifacts may be shown under de-identified descriptive names so the team can understand what was produced.
• Cowork Team Report — Team Dashboard skill (the manager skill). The manager/lead runs it. It reads the shared channel, combines everyone's summaries into one anonymized HTML dashboard, and emails the team a newsletter (the dashboard, with the how-to-read guide built in) on a schedule the manager chooses. It only ever reads what teammates post — never anyone's files.

_{What the team gets: one anonymized, team-level ROI dashboard — Overview, Impact & Value and How Cowork is used tabs (sample data shown). Open the live interactive demo ↗}

To make rollout effortless, this repository also hosts a small web page — the Installer Studio — where a manager pastes their team's Teams channel link once and downloads both skills with that channel already built in. Nobody is ever asked to paste a link. The rest of this guide walks a manager through the whole process.

🎬 Watch First

Plays here in the page — no download. A 2-minute overview of the Team Cowork Skill — how the member skill and the team-lead skill work together, what the dashboard shows, and how to roll it out for your team.

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▶️ Watch the 2-minute overview  ·  captions: .srt

What you'll need first

A Teams channel where your team's Cowork reports will be collected — for example Cowork report - {your team name}. If you don't have one yet, create it in Microsoft Teams before you start, and add the people whose work you want included. Keep the channel just for these reports.

Set it up — step by step

You only do this once for your team.

1. Open the Installer Studio page in your web browser: https://aka.ms/CoworkDashboard

2. Copy your team's Teams channel link. In Microsoft Teams, find the channel in the left-hand list, hover over its name, and click the ⋯ More options button that appears (or right-click the channel). Choose Copy link (some Teams versions label it Get link to channel) — then click Copy.

3. Paste the link into the box on the page and click Parse & verify. The page reads the link and shows the channel name it found — check it's the right channel.

4. Download both skills. Two buttons appear, each already carrying your channel:

   • Download the manager skill (.zip) — you install this one.
   • Download the team-member skill (.zip) — you send this one to your team.

5. Install the manager skill (that's you) — and let it set you up. Open Copilot Cowork, upload the manager zip (upload the .zip file as-is — don't unzip it first), and ask it to install and walk you through setup (for example: “install this manager skill, then walk me through setup — starting with sending the member skill to my team”). That second half matters: installing a skill on its own runs nothing, so it makes the skill immediately offer to send the member skill to your teammates — the step that actually makes the dashboard fill up. Because your channel is already built in, it won't ask you for a link. Afterwards you can say “build the team Cowork Team Report” any time — or ask it to run on a schedule and email the team automatically.

6. Share the team-member skill with your team. Send the team-member zip to everyone whose Copilot work you'd like included. Each person uploads it in Copilot Cowork (the .zip file as-is — don't unzip it first) and asks it to install the skill — the same simple step. Their reports start posting to your channel automatically; no one is asked for a link.

That's the whole setup. From here on, teammates post their summaries and your manager skill rolls them up into the emailed newsletter — refreshing on its schedule with nothing more for you to do.

What teammates control before publishing

Every teammate gets a privacy review before a report is posted to the channel. They can remove any session they do not want included; removing a session also removes all work artifacts associated with it. This only removes the session from the pending report — it does not delete the original Cowork session.

Published reports do not reveal the contributor's individual identity, prompts, or raw filenames. They can name retained work artifacts using de-identified descriptive labels, along with details such as artifact type, business process, skills, hours, and value. Teammates should remove any session whose artifact descriptions they are not comfortable sharing with the channel.

Want your own Copilot work counted too? As the manager you can also install the team-member skill on your own Copilot — that's optional, and only needed if you want your own stats in the team totals.

What the downloads contain

Each Installer Studio download is an ordinary copy of the matching skill with your channel already filled in, so it works the moment it's installed. Nothing else about the skill is changed — the only difference between a baked copy and a plain one is a single small channel config file (config/team_channel.json for the team-member skill, config/team_config.json for the manager skill). If anyone ever installs a plain, un-configured copy, the skill simply asks for the channel link the first time it runs, the way it normally would.

Is my channel link private?

Yes. The link you paste stays entirely inside your own web browser. It is never sent to a server, and the page makes no outside network calls — it only builds the download for you, locally.

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Two ways to get the skills

• A — Installer Studio (recommended). Paste your channel link on the page above and download the two zips. Your channel is baked in, so you and your team just upload each zip and run it — nobody is asked for a link.
• B — Grab the zips straight from this repo (manual). The un-baked skill zips live next to each skill folder and under docs/downloads/. These ship with a blank channel, so the first time each skill runs in Copilot Cowork it asks you to paste the Teams channel link, then remembers it. Use this if you can't (or don't want to) use the Installer Studio page.

Both paths install the exact same skill code — path A only pre-fills the channel config so there's no first-run question.

Prefer to install by hand?

You don't have to let Copilot unpack the zip for you — you can drop the skill into place yourself:

1. Get a skill zip — either from the Installer Studio page (channel baked in) or straight from this repo (blank channel, see option B above) — and unzip it. You'll get a single folder, either cowork-dashboard-member/ (the team-member skill) or cowork-dashboard-team-dashboard/ (the manager skill).
2. Copy that folder into your Cowork skills directory (use the line that matches the skill you're installing):

   Documents/Cowork/skills/cowork-dashboard-member/
   Documents/Cowork/skills/cowork-dashboard-team-dashboard/
   

3. Wait about 35 seconds for OneDrive to sync, and the skill is ready to use in Copilot Cowork.

If you used an Installer Studio download, your channel is already baked in and there's nothing else to configure. If you used a blank copy from this repo, the skill asks for your Teams channel link the first time it runs.