A skill your agent uses when writing the ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) rebuttal and the shepherd's description-of-changes — the short round-two response that…

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Install Atc Author Response

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill atc-author-response -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills atc-author-response --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/ATC-Skills/skills/atc-author-response .claude/skills/atc-author-response && 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
atc-author-response
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
501 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 ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) rebuttal and the shepherd's description-of-changes — the short round-two response that…

  • Writing the ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference
  • SKILL.md covers The rebuttal (round two, ~1…, The description of changes…, Mapping requests to moves and What moves an outcome vs. what…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • The point-by-point revision record a conditional-acceptance shepherd checks before final acceptance

What it does

Atc Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing the ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) rebuttal and the shepherd's description-of-changes — the short round-two response that corrects factual misreadings and supplies requested measurements, and the point-by-point revision record a conditional-acceptance shepherd checks before final acceptance.

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.

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 ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference
  • The point-by-point revision record a conditional-acceptance shepherd checks before final acceptance

Example prompts

  • “/atc-author-response”

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

Atc Author Response loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 501 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
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). 501 words, ~1,145 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/atc-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
atc-author-response
description
Use when writing the ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) rebuttal and the shepherd's description-of-changes — the short round-two response that corrects factual misreadings and supplies requested measurements, and the point-by-point revision record a conditional-acceptance shepherd checks before final acceptance.

ATC Author Response

ATC gives you two distinct writing moments after review, and they have different jobs. The rebuttal (a short, roughly one-page window during round two) is for correcting misreadings and supplying a measurement a reviewer said was missing. The description of changes (after a conditional accept, for the shepherd) is a point-by-point record proving every required revision was made. Confusing the two — arguing in the shepherd round, or over-promising in the rebuttal — is the classic failure.

The rebuttal (round two, ~1 page)

Its job is narrow and its space is tiny, so triage ruthlessly:

  • Correct factual misreadings first — a reviewer who misread the testbed, the baseline, or the claim can be moved by a precise correction with a pointer to the section/figure.
  • Supply the one number that matters — if a reviewer said "no tail latency" or "no matched-cost comparison," and you have or can add it, state the result concisely. Systems reviewers move on evidence, not on rhetoric.
  • Concede cleanly what you cannot fix this cycle — a crisp "correct; here is the honest bound" buys more credibility than defending an overclaim.
  • Do not argue taste — "the reviewer underrates the contribution" changes nothing; the PC discussion decides.

Structure it as reviewer/point → response, lead with the highest-impact corrections, and never introduce unsupported new claims (which read as scope creep). Keep double-blind: the rebuttal must not reveal identity.

The description of changes (shepherd round)

After a conditional accept, a PC member shepherds the paper: final acceptance depends on the required revisions landing. Write the change record as a contract:

  • One row per required change: reviewer/shepherd request → what you changed → where (section, figure, table) → the resulting text or result.
  • Make or explicitly decline every requested change. A silently skipped required change is the fastest way to stall a conditional accept; if you decline, give the reason and the evidence.
  • Point to concrete artifacts of the change — the new figure, the added experiment, the revised paragraph — not a promise to do it.
  • Keep the shepherd's scope. The shepherd enforces the required revisions, not a new round of wishes; do not reopen settled scope or add unrequested claims that invite fresh review.
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Mapping requests to moves

Reviewer requestStrong response
"Baseline is weak / unmatched"Add the well-configured baseline at a matched operating point; report the new comparison
"No tail latency / variance"Add p99/p999 and multi-run variance; point to the updated figure
"Unclear how it's built / scales"Add implementation detail or a scaling experiment; cite the new section
"Costs not reported"Quantify the trade beside the gain at matched cost
"Reproducibility unclear"Point to the anonymized artifact and the claim-to-experiment map
A misreadingCorrect precisely with a section/figure pointer; do not over-explain

What moves an outcome vs. what does not

text
[Moves it]     a factual correction; a requested measurement supplied; a clean concession + bound
[Doesn't]      arguing the reviewer's taste; re-asserting the abstract; vague "we will consider"
[Backfires]    unsupported new claims; scope creep; defensiveness; an anonymity leak

Reverify each cycle

  • Whether a formal rebuttal window exists and its length (about one page is the reported norm — confirm on the call).
  • The shepherding requirements and the change-record format for the current edition.
  • The camera-ready deadline relative to the shepherd sign-off (see atc-camera-ready).

Output format

text
[Response type] round-two rebuttal / shepherd description-of-changes
[Triage] highest-impact corrections and requested measurements listed first
[Per point] request -> response -> evidence/location; every required change made or declined-with-reason
[Anonymity] no identity leak in the response? yes/no
[Forbidden] unsupported new claims / taste arguments / silently skipped required changes: absent?

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Files

Just SKILL.md in ATC-Skills/skills/atc-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Atc Author Response

What does Atc Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when writing the ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) rebuttal and the shepherd's description-of-changes — the short round-two response that…. Atc Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing the ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) rebuttal and the shepherd's description-of-changes — the short round-two response that corrects factual misreadings and supplies requested measurements, and the point-by-point revision record a conditional-acceptance shepherd checks before final acceptance.

When should I use Atc Author Response?

Atc Author Response fits situations like: writing the ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference; the point-by-point revision record a conditional-acceptance shepherd checks before final acceptance.

How do I install Atc Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Atc Author Response in Codex?

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

Can I use Atc Author Response 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 atc-author-response -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/atc-author-response, .gemini/skills/atc-author-response, .github/skills/atc-author-response and .opencode/skills/atc-author-response in your project.

What does Atc Author Response need to run?

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

Does Atc Author Response 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 Atc Author Response 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 Atc Author Response use?

Atc Author Response 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 Atc Author Response use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 Atc Author Response?

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Who maintains Atc Author Response?

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.