A skill your agent uses when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision…

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Install Aejmac Rebuttal

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-rebuttal -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmac-rebuttal --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-rebuttal .claude/skills/aejmac-rebuttal && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
aejmac-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
566 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision…

  • Works in 4 steps: Triage every comment → Map comments to the macro skills → Write the letter → …
  • An American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AEJ: Macro rebuttal posture, Building the response and Checklist, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aejmac Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision plan. Plans the rebuttal and revision; it does not run new identification, model, or robustness work itself (route to those skills).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Peer review. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • An American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R
  • Reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision plan

Example prompts

  • “/aejmac-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Triage every comment
  2. Map comments to the macro skills
  3. Write the letter
  4. Reconcile conflicts

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Aejmac Rebuttal loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 566 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~82
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 566 words, ~1,240 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aejmac-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aejmac-rebuttal
description
Use when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision plan. Plans the rebuttal and revision; it does not run new identification, model, or robustness work itself (route to those skills).

Rebuttal & Response Letter (aejmac-rebuttal)

When to trigger

  • An R&R from the editor/coeditor and referees has arrived
  • A reject-with-comments where a re-submission (here or elsewhere) is being weighed
  • Referee reports conflict with each other and you must reconcile them
  • You need to convert a pile of macro objections into a tractable revision plan

The AEJ: Macro rebuttal posture

AEJ: Macro review is single-blind and editor/coeditor-managed; the coeditor's letter is the binding instruction set — when a referee and the coeditor disagree, follow the coeditor. The response must show that the broad-interest macro contribution survived the scrutiny and that the identified-empirical and/or quantitative-model objections are answered with new exhibits, not new prose alone. Macro referees reward a response that re-runs the decisive check and reports the (possibly changed) number honestly.

Building the response

Step 1 — Triage every comment
  • Build a table: comment → required action → owning skill → main-text vs. appendix → status.
  • Tag each as (a) do and show, (b) do and report even if it weakens the result, or (c) reasoned pushback. Most should be (a)/(b); reserve (c) for the few you can win on the merits.
Step 2 — Map comments to the macro skills
  • Identification objections → aejmac-identification (re-do the SVAR/LP/narrative defense).
  • "Artifact of the sample/spec" → aejmac-robustness (sample splits, method cross-check).
  • Calibration / counterfactual / Lucas-critique → aejmac-theory-model.
  • "Not broad enough" / contribution unclear → aejmac-literature-positioning / aejmac-writing-style.
  • Reproducibility → aejmac-replication-package.
Step 3 — Write the letter
  • Open with a short summary of the main changes and the headline (state if the number moved).
  • One comment, one response block: restate the comment, state what you did, point to the exact new table/figure/section, quote the changed text.
  • Be honest about movement: if a robustness check changed the estimate, report the new value and explain why the conclusion still holds (or how it is now appropriately qualified).
  • Push back sparingly and with evidence, never with attitude; concede gracefully where the referee is right.
Step 4 — Reconcile conflicts
  • When referees conflict, say so explicitly, explain your choice, and tie it to the coeditor's guidance.
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Checklist

  • Every comment in a triage table with action, owning skill, location, status
  • The coeditor's letter treated as binding; conflicts reconciled to it
  • Each empirical/model objection answered with a new exhibit, not prose alone
  • Honest reporting where a check moved the headline number
  • Response letter is point-by-point, with exact pointers and quoted changed text
  • Pushback is rare, evidenced, and courteous
  • Reproducibility comments resolved against the openICPSR package

Anti-patterns

  • Answering an identification or robustness objection with words instead of a re-run and a new exhibit
  • Hiding that a robustness check changed the estimate
  • Treating a referee as adversary; defensiveness in tone
  • Ignoring the coeditor's priorities to satisfy a referee's tangent
  • A response letter that does not point to exact tables/sections
  • Promising changes in the letter that are not actually in the revised manuscript

Worked vignette: the number moved (illustrative)

A referee says the monetary-policy output response is a pre-Volcker artifact. You re-estimate post-1984 (aejmac-robustness) and the peak response falls from -0.8% to -0.6% (90% bands overlapping). The strong response block: "We agree the early sample could drive the result. Re-estimating on 1984–2019 (new Table A4, Figure A3), the peak output response is -0.6% (90% band [-1.0, -0.2]), within the band of the full-sample estimate; the qualitative conclusion is unchanged and the magnitude is now reported for the modern monetary regime. We have revised the abstract and Section 4 accordingly." Honest, exhibit-backed, conclusion preserved and appropriately scoped.

Output format

【Decision type】R&R / reject-with-comments
【Triage table built】comment → action → owning skill → location → status? [Y/N]
【Coeditor letter treated as binding】conflicts reconciled to it? [Y/N]
【New exhibits for empirical/model objections】listed? [Y/N]
【Honest number movement reported】? [Y/N / NA]
【Letter style】point-by-point with exact pointers? [Y/N]
【Next step】revise manuscript; re-run aejmac-submission preflight before resubmitting

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Files

Just SKILL.md in AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aejmac Rebuttal

What does Aejmac Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision…. Aejmac Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision plan.

When should I use Aejmac Rebuttal?

Aejmac Rebuttal fits situations like: an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R; reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision plan.

How do I install Aejmac Rebuttal in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-rebuttal -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-rebuttal in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aejmac-rebuttal in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aejmac Rebuttal in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-rebuttal -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-rebuttal in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aejmac-rebuttal in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aejmac Rebuttal in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-rebuttal -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aejmac-rebuttal, .gemini/skills/aejmac-rebuttal, .github/skills/aejmac-rebuttal and .opencode/skills/aejmac-rebuttal in your project.

What does Aejmac Rebuttal need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aejmac Rebuttal is instructions for the agent only.

Does Aejmac Rebuttal access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Aejmac Rebuttal safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Aejmac Rebuttal use?

Aejmac Rebuttal is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Aejmac Rebuttal use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Aejmac Rebuttal?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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