A skill your agent uses when drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window, covering threat-model defenses, adaptive-attack objections, ethics and disclosure questions…

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Install Ccs Author Response

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ccs-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/ACM-CCS-Skills/skills/ccs-author-response .claude/skills/ccs-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
ccs-author-response
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~949 tokens
SKILL.md length
439 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window, covering threat-model defenses, adaptive-attack objections, ethics and disclosure questions…

  • Works in 4 steps: State the decision-critical correction… → Point to exact submitted evidence… → Explain the security consequence — why… → …
  • Drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window
  • SKILL.md covers Triage, Drafting pattern, Adversarial reviewer pushback… and Response micro-example, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ccs Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window, covering threat-model defenses, adaptive-attack objections, ethics and disclosure questions, anonymity constraints, adversarial reviewer pushback patterns, and decision-focused replies aimed at the meta-reviewer.

Its SKILL.md is about 950 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 Security, covering Threat modeling. 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

  • Drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window
  • Covering threat-model defenses
  • Adaptive-attack objections
  • Ethics and disclosure questions

Example prompts

  • “/ccs-author-response”

Workflow steps

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

  1. State the decision-critical correction or concession in the first line.
  2. Point to exact submitted evidence (section, figure, appendix).
  3. Explain the security consequence — why the attack still holds, or the defense still binds.
  4. Offer a scoped camera-ready edit only where it clarifies without over-claiming.

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

Ccs Author Response loads about 949 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 439 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~949

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). 439 words, ~949 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ccs-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ccs-author-response
description
Use when drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window, covering threat-model defenses, adaptive-attack objections, ethics and disclosure questions, anonymity constraints, adversarial reviewer pushback patterns, and decision-focused replies aimed at the meta-reviewer.

CCS Author Response

Use this after CCS reviews are released. Reopen the current HotCRP rebuttal instructions and any length or format limits before drafting, because response mechanics are set per cycle.

Triage

  • Answer concerns that affect the decision: threat-model soundness, novelty, correctness, evidence quality, ethics, and disclosure. Skip cosmetic complaints unless space allows.
  • Use evidence already in the submission: sections, appendices, measurement tables, and the ethics section. The rebuttal clarifies the submitted paper; it does not add a new paper.
  • Keep the reply anonymous. Do not reveal institution, authorship, private URLs, or the identity of a disclosed vendor if that would deanonymize you.
  • Correct factual misreadings first, then address the strongest objection to the attacker model or the adaptive evaluation.
  • Do not promise experiments you cannot run before camera-ready; promise only edits that add no unsupported claim.

Drafting pattern

  1. State the decision-critical correction or concession in the first line.
  2. Point to exact submitted evidence (section, figure, appendix).
  3. Explain the security consequence — why the attack still holds, or the defense still binds.
  4. Offer a scoped camera-ready edit only where it clarifies without over-claiming.

Adversarial reviewer pushback patterns

PushbackWhat it signalsCCS-ready fix
"The attacker assumes too much"The threat model looks unrealisticPoint to where the capability is justified, or scope the claim to the realistic subset and concede the rest
"You never tested an adaptive attacker"The defense evaluation looks incompleteReference the adaptive experiment if present; if absent, concede and commit to a bounded camera-ready addition only if honestly feasible
"This is already a known CVE"A prior-art gapDistinguish root cause, scope, or impact from the CVE, with the specific technical delta
"The ethics of this are unaddressed"Disclosure or harm concernState the disclosure timeline, the harm-minimization steps, and the reasoning, quoting the ethics section
Show full SKILL.md (136 more words)Show less

Response micro-example

Reviewer objection: the key-recovery attack assumes co-located measurement that real attackers cannot achieve. Reply skeleton:

  1. Concede the strongest form needs co-location; scope the practical claim to that setting.
  2. Point to Section 6 where a remote variant with degraded rate is already measured.
  3. Note the defense in Section 7 blocks both variants, so the contribution stands.
  4. Offer one camera-ready sentence making the co-location assumption explicit in the intro.

Rebuttal calibration

  • One decision-critical point per reviewer beats an exhaustive rebuttal; CCS meta-reviewers read for whether the central threat-model or ethics objection was actually resolved.
  • Never paste new experimental results the reviewers cannot verify; describe what exists and anchor it in the submission.
  • Answer the ethics reviewer directly and early; an unaddressed disclosure concern outweighs resolved technical nits at decision time.

Output format

text
[Priority issue] <reviewer concern>
[Decision dimension] threat model / novelty / correctness / evidence / ethics
[Draft response] <CCS-ready anonymous text>
[Evidence anchor] <section / figure / appendix item>
[Forbidden content removed] <identity leaks, unverifiable new results, over-promises>

© 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 ACM-CCS-Skills/skills/ccs-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ccs Author Response

What does Ccs Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window, covering threat-model defenses, adaptive-attack objections, ethics and disclosure questions…. Ccs Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window, covering threat-model defenses, adaptive-attack objections, ethics and disclosure questions, anonymity constraints, adversarial reviewer pushback patterns, and decision-focused replies aimed at the meta-reviewer.

When should I use Ccs Author Response?

Ccs Author Response fits situations like: drafting an ACM CCS rebuttal during the HotCRP author-response window; covering threat-model defenses; adaptive-attack objections; ethics and disclosure questions.

How do I install Ccs Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ccs Author Response in Codex?

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

Can I use Ccs 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 ccs-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/ccs-author-response, .gemini/skills/ccs-author-response, .github/skills/ccs-author-response and .opencode/skills/ccs-author-response in your project.

What does Ccs Author Response need to run?

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

Does Ccs 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 Ccs 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 Ccs Author Response use?

Ccs 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 Ccs Author Response use?

About 949 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k 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 Ccs Author Response?

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Who maintains Ccs 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.