A skill your agent uses when responding to an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) conditional-accept decision — addressing the editor's letter within the short window, usually without…

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Install Aeri Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeri-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/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-rebuttal .claude/skills/aeri-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
aeri-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
475 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when responding to an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) conditional-accept decision — addressing the editor's letter within the short window, usually without…

  • Works in 6 steps: Treat the letter as a punch list. Map… → Comply, don't argue. Since there is no… → Keep the response letter short. One… → …
  • Usually without a second referee round
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What an AER: Insights…, How to respond and Response-letter structure, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aeri Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) conditional-accept decision — addressing the editor's letter within the short window, usually without a second referee round. Drafts a concise, decisive response and revision plan; it does not redo the analysis (see aeri-robustness / aeri-identification).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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

  • Usually without a second referee round
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/aeri-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Treat the letter as a punch list. Map every requested change to a concrete edit; nothing is "optional."
  2. Comply, don't argue. Since there is no referee round to win, push back only where a request is genuinely infeasible or would be wrong…
  3. Keep the response letter short. One numbered item per request: the request, what you did, where in the paper (section/exhibit/line)…
  4. Protect the caps. Edits must keep the paper within 7,000 − 200×(#exhibits) words and ≤5 exhibits — added text or an added exhibit can…
  5. Finalize the replication package. A conditional accept means the AEA Data Editor check is imminent; have the deposit ready…
  6. Keep the single insight intact. Do not let requested additions turn the short paper into a sprawling one.

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

Aeri Rebuttal loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 475 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 475 words, ~1,102 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aeri-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aeri-rebuttal
description
Use when responding to an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) conditional-accept decision — addressing the editor's letter within the short window, usually without a second referee round. Drafts a concise, decisive response and revision plan; it does not redo the analysis (see aeri-robustness / aeri-identification).

Conditional-Accept Response (aeri-rebuttal)

When to trigger

  • A conditional accept letter arrived from AER: Insights
  • You must return a revised short paper within the conditional window (~8 weeks)
  • The letter lists changes the editor expects, and you need a tight response
  • You received a reject and are deciding what to do (see end of this skill)

What an AER: Insights conditional accept means (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准)

AER: Insights does not issue traditional revise-and-resubmit decisions. A conditional accept means the editor expects to publish the paper subject to the changes in the decision letter; authors typically get about 8 weeks to return the revision, which is normally not sent back to referees. The conditions are meant to be achievable without substantial uncertainty — this is finishing, not relitigating. So the response is short, complete, and non-defensive: do what the letter asks, document it crisply, and do not reopen settled issues.

How to respond

  1. Treat the letter as a punch list. Map every requested change to a concrete edit; nothing is "optional."
  2. Comply, don't argue. Since there is no referee round to win, push back only where a request is genuinely infeasible or would be wrong — and then offer an alternative that satisfies the underlying concern.
  3. Keep the response letter short. One numbered item per request: the request, what you did, where in the paper (section/exhibit/line). Editors of a short journal reward concision.
  4. Protect the caps. Edits must keep the paper within 7,000 − 200×(#exhibits) words and ≤5 exhibits — added text or an added exhibit can re-breach the gate. Move new material to the Supplemental Appendix (aeri-robustness).
  5. Finalize the replication package. A conditional accept means the AEA Data Editor check is imminent; have the deposit ready (aeri-replication-package).
  6. Keep the single insight intact. Do not let requested additions turn the short paper into a sprawling one.
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Response-letter structure

Dear Editor [name],
Thank you for the conditional acceptance. We have addressed each point below.

1. [Editor request, quoted/paraphrased]
   Response: [what we did], now in [Section/Exhibit/Appendix].
2. ...
We confirm the manuscript remains within the word and exhibit limits, and the
replication package is prepared for the AEA Data Editor.

Checklist

  • Every item in the decision letter mapped to a concrete edit
  • Response letter is concise, point-by-point, non-defensive
  • Any pushback is rare, justified, and offers an alternative
  • Revised paper still within word + exhibit caps; new material to the appendix
  • The single insight is unchanged; no scope creep
  • Replication package finalized for the AEA Data Editor check
  • Returned within the conditional window (~8 weeks)

Anti-patterns

  • Arguing with the editor as if this were a multi-round R&R
  • Adding text/exhibits that re-breach the word or exhibit cap
  • A long, defensive response letter for a short paper
  • Letting requested additions sprawl the paper beyond its single insight
  • Leaving the data/code deposit until after the response is sent

If it was a REJECT instead

There is no path to relitigate a reject at AER: Insights. Reframe quickly: the short paper is often a strong fit for an AEJ field journal, or can be expanded into a fuller AER-style paper if the idea supports more. Route back to aeri-topic-selection to decide which.

Output format

【Decision】conditional accept / reject
【Punch list】each request → edit → location
【Caps after revision】words = __ (≤ 7000 − 200×__?), exhibits __/5
【Insight intact】single idea unchanged? [Y/N]
【Data editor】replication package ready? [Y/N]
【If reject】next venue (AEJ / expand to AER) → aeri-topic-selection
【Next step】submit revision within ~8-week window

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Files

Just SKILL.md in AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aeri Rebuttal

What does Aeri Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when responding to an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) conditional-accept decision — addressing the editor's letter within the short window, usually without…. Aeri Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) conditional-accept decision — addressing the editor's letter within the short window, usually without a second referee round.

When should I use Aeri Rebuttal?

Aeri Rebuttal fits situations like: usually without a second referee round; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Aeri Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Aeri Rebuttal in Codex?

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

Can I use Aeri 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 aeri-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/aeri-rebuttal, .gemini/skills/aeri-rebuttal, .github/skills/aeri-rebuttal and .opencode/skills/aeri-rebuttal in your project.

What does Aeri Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Aeri 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 Aeri 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 Aeri Rebuttal use?

Aeri 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 Aeri Rebuttal use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Aeri Rebuttal?

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Who maintains Aeri 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.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.