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Operations Team Workflows with MCP

Feb 1, 2026•5 min read

Operations teams are the connective tissue of every organization. You're also drowning in status updates, data entry, and cross-team coordination. These workflows automate the operational overhead so your team can focus on actually improving the business.

What Your Team Needs

Workflow 1: The Weekly Status Compiler

Every Monday, you spend 2 hours pinging people for updates, then another hour compiling them into a report. This handles 90% of that work instantly.

The Prompt

Compile the weekly operations status report. Pull from the last 7 days: FROM SLACK: Key updates from #ops-team, #projects, #announcements FROM ASANA: Tasks completed this week & tasks currently in progress FROM DRIVE: Documents updated this week in the "Operations" folder FORMAT AS: **Weekly Ops Status: [DATE RANGE]** **Highlights** Top 3-5 accomplishments **In Progress** Major initiatives and their status **Blockers & Issues** What needs attention **Next Week Focus** Planned priorities Keep it scannable. Executives read this in 2 minutes.

Workflow 2: The "Instant SOP" Generator

Process documentation usually happens in messy notes or Slack threads that get lost. Turn those raw instructions into polished Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

The Prompt

Here are some raw notes/brain dump on "How to onboard a new vendor": [PASTE NOTES] Please transform this into a professional SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). Include: 1. **Purpose & Scope** 2. **Prerequisites** (What access is needed?) 3. **Step-by-Step Instructions** (Numbered list) 4. **Troubleshooting** (Common issues) Save the output as a Markdown file named "SOP - Vendor Onboarding.md" to my Desktop.

Workflow 3: The Contract Renewal Watchdog

Missing a renewal date can cost thousands in unwanted auto-renewals. Scan your repository for dates.

The Prompt

Scan the "Legal/Contracts" folder in my Google Drive. 1. Identify all contracts with an "End Date" or "Renewal Date" within the next 90 days. 2. Extract the Vendor Name, Cost, and specific Renewal/Termination clause for each. 3. Create a summary table sorted by date, with a "Days Remaining" column.

Workflow 4: Incident Timeline Creator

When something breaks, building the post-mortem timeline is tedious. Claude can look back at the chaos and order it chronologically.

The Prompt

Use this after an incident is resolved.

Review the history of the #production-incidents Slack channel for the last 24 hours. Create a chronological timeline of the recent outage. For each entry include: - Time (UTC) - Event Description (Alert fired, Status update, Fix deployed) - Who was involved Then, draft a "Root Cause Analysis" summary based on the engineering discussion in the thread.

Workflow 5: Resource Heat Check

Who is overloaded? Who has capacity? Instead of asking everyone, check the data.

The Prompt

Analyze our Asana/Linear project board. 1. List each team member. 2. Count their total assigned tasks and how many are marked "In Progress" or "Overdue". 3. Flag any individual who seems overloaded (more than 5 active tasks). 4. Identify any tasks that haven't been touched in over 2 weeks.

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