A skill your agent uses when writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit.

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Install Amanthro Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills amanthro-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/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-rebuttal .claude/skills/amanthro-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
amanthro-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
602 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit.

  • Works in 6 steps: Read the editor's letter as the rubric.… → One point-by-point response, every… → Concede or rebut explicitly, with… → …
  • Writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Strategy, Response-letter format and Triage table for an AA R&R, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Amanthro Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit. AA uses anonymous peer review under an ethics of care, often with cross-subfield reviewers, so the response must convert each reviewer while keeping the editor confident and the ethnographic contribution intact. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate new evidence.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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

  • Writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/amanthro-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the editor's letter as the rubric. The editor signals which points are decisive and
  2. One point-by-point response, every comment addressed. Quote each comment, then respond. Never
  3. Concede or rebut explicitly, with evidence. For each: say where you revised (new text/section),
  4. Reconcile cross-subfield reviewers openly. When an archaeologist and a sociocultural reviewer
  5. Protect the contribution and the people in it. Add evidence and clarification, but resist changes
  6. Match the ethics of care. Keep the tone collegial and non-defensive; AA's review culture is

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

Amanthro Rebuttal loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 96 tokens; SKILL.md has 602 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~96
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 602 words, ~1,353 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/amanthro-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
amanthro-rebuttal
description
Use when writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit. AA uses anonymous peer review under an ethics of care, often with cross-subfield reviewers, so the response must convert each reviewer while keeping the editor confident and the ethnographic contribution intact. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate new evidence.

R&R Rebuttal (amanthro-rebuttal)

An AA revise-and-resubmit is the normal route to acceptance — treat it as an invitation, not a near miss. But the paper still must satisfy expert, sometimes cross-subfield reviewers and the editor. The response letter must move every reviewer toward yes while protecting the four-field contribution and the integrity of the ethnography and ethics.

When to trigger

  • An R&R decision arrived and you are planning the revision + response letter
  • Reviewers disagree with each other (often across subfields) and you must reconcile them
  • A reviewer requests changes that would alter your interpretation or expose interlocutors
  • Writing the cover note to the editor summarizing the revision

Strategy

  1. Read the editor's letter as the rubric. The editor signals which points are decisive and adjudicates among reviewers. Solve those first and headline them in the cover note.
  2. One point-by-point response, every comment addressed. Quote each comment, then respond. Never skip one — silence reads as non-compliance, even under an ethics of care.
  3. Concede or rebut explicitly, with evidence. For each: say where you revised (new text/section), or push back respectfully with a reason (ethnographic evidence, theoretical logic, or ethics). A well-argued disagreement is respected more than a hollow concession that flattens the argument.
  4. Reconcile cross-subfield reviewers openly. When an archaeologist and a sociocultural reviewer want opposite things, choose a principled path, explain the tradeoff, and answer each in that tradition's idiom (AA's four-field pluralism).
  5. Protect the contribution and the people in it. Add evidence and clarification, but resist changes that dilute the four-field claim — and never add detail that would de-anonymize or endanger interlocutors to satisfy a reviewer (see amanthro-transparency-and-data).
  6. Match the ethics of care. Keep the tone collegial and non-defensive; AA's review culture is constructive, and a gracious, substantive letter helps.

Response-letter format

For each reviewer comment:

> [Quoted reviewer comment]

Response: [What we did / why we respectfully disagree].
Change: [Section/page/figure number where the revision appears].

Open with a short summary of the main changes to the editor; group by reviewer; end each entry with the location of the change so the editor can verify quickly.

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Triage table for an AA R&R

Comment signalWho owns the callDefault move in the response
Editor flags it as decisiveeditorsolve first, headline it in the cover note
Two reviewers want opposite things (often cross-subfield)editorpick a principled path, explain the tradeoff openly
Reviewer asks for more identifying detail about interlocutorsauthordecline on ethics grounds; explain the consent/harm constraint
Reviewer wants the case generalized beyond its scopeauthoradd scope conditions; resist over-claiming
Reviewer disputes a method across traditionsauthoranswer on that tradition's own terms (four-field pluralism)

Anti-patterns

  • Ignoring or merging away a comment without a visible response
  • Capitulating to a request that breaks the argument or endangers interlocutors
  • Defensive or dismissive tone (out of step with AA's ethics of care)
  • "We thank the reviewer" with no actual change or argued reason
  • Adding ethnographic detail that compromises anonymity to please a reviewer
  • Letting the revision quietly drift away from the four-field framing that earned the R&R

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A hypothetical R&R draws three reviews. The editor names two decisive points (four-field significance and an ethics question about a photograph). R1 (sociocultural) wants more interlocutor detail; R2 (linguistic) wants a tighter discourse analysis. The disciplined letter opens with a three-sentence summary, addresses significance and the photograph first (replacing the image with a consented, anonymized alternative), then reconciles R1/R2 by deepening the discourse analysis while declining the request for identifying detail on consent grounds — stated plainly. Of 27 comments, 27 receive a quoted response; 20 conceded with a location, 7 rebutted with a reason. (Counts illustrative.)

Output format

【Editor's decisive points】addressed first? [list]
【Coverage】every reviewer comment answered? [Y/N]
【Concede vs rebut】each tagged with evidence + change location
【Cross-subfield conflicts】reconciled and explained to editor? [Y/N]
【Contribution + ethics protected】no dilution, no de-anonymization? [Y/N]
【Next】resubmit via Research Exchange

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Amanthro Rebuttal

What does Amanthro Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit. Amanthro Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit.

When should I use Amanthro Rebuttal?

Amanthro Rebuttal fits situations like: writing the response to an American Anthropologist (AA) revise-and-resubmit; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Amanthro Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Amanthro Rebuttal in Codex?

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

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

What does Amanthro Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Amanthro 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 Amanthro 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 Amanthro Rebuttal use?

Amanthro 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 Amanthro Rebuttal use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k 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 Amanthro 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.