A skill your agent uses when responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the author's Reply to the published CA✩ Comments.

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Install Curranthro Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills curranthro-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/Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-rebuttal .claude/skills/curranthro-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
curranthro-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
631 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 a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the author's Reply to the published CA✩ Comments.

  • Works in 5 steps: Read the editor's letter as the rubric.… → One point-by-point response, every… → Concede or rebut explicitly, with… → …
  • Responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the authors Reply to the published CA✩ Comments
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Task A — the normal R&R letter…, Task B — the CA✩ Reply to… and Triage table, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Curranthro Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the author's Reply to the published CA✩ Comments. CA has two distinct response tasks — a normal revise-and-resubmit letter to referees/editor before acceptance, and the public, signed Reply to invited commentators printed alongside an accepted Major Article. Structures both; it does not fabricate new evidence.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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

  • Responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the authors Reply to the published CA✩ Comments
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/curranthro-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the editor's letter as the rubric. Solve the decisive points first; headline them in the
  2. One point-by-point response, every comment addressed. Quote each comment, then respond. Silence
  3. Concede or rebut explicitly, with evidence. Say where you revised (new text/section), or push back
  4. Reconcile cross-subfield reviewers openly. Choose a principled path; answer each in that
  5. Protect the contribution and the people in it. Never add detail that de-anonymizes or endangers

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

Curranthro Rebuttal loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 631 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 631 words, ~1,456 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/curranthro-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
curranthro-rebuttal
description
Use when responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the author's Reply to the published CA✩ Comments. CA has two distinct response tasks — a normal revise-and-resubmit letter to referees/editor before acceptance, and the public, signed Reply to invited commentators printed alongside an accepted Major Article. Structures both; it does not fabricate new evidence.

Rebuttal & the CA✩ Reply (curranthro-rebuttal)

CA gives you two response tasks, and they are not the same. Before acceptance, you may face a normal revise-and-resubmit — a private point-by-point letter to referees and the editor. After a Major Article is accepted, you face the distinctive CA✩ Reply: a public, signed response to the international Comments that will be printed alongside your article and its commentators. The Reply is not an R&R — it is a published piece of scholarship in its own right. Diagnose which task you are in, then use the matching playbook.

When to trigger

  • An R&R decision arrived and you are planning the revision + private response letter
  • Your Major Article was accepted and the editors sent you the Comments to reply to (the CA✩ Reply)
  • Reviewers/commentators disagree with each other (often across subfields) and you must reconcile them
  • A comment requests changes that would alter your interpretation or expose interlocutors

Task A — the normal R&R letter (before acceptance)

  1. Read the editor's letter as the rubric. Solve the decisive points first; headline them in the cover note.
  2. One point-by-point response, every comment addressed. Quote each comment, then respond. Silence reads as non-compliance.
  3. Concede or rebut explicitly, with evidence. Say where you revised (new text/section), or push back respectfully with a reason (ethnographic evidence, theoretical logic, or ethics).
  4. Reconcile cross-subfield reviewers openly. Choose a principled path; answer each in that tradition's idiom.
  5. Protect the contribution and the people in it. Never add detail that de-anonymizes or endangers interlocutors to satisfy a reviewer (see curranthro-transparency-and-data).
> [Quoted reviewer comment]
Response: [What we did / why we respectfully disagree].
Change: [Section/page/figure number where the revision appears].

Task B — the CA✩ Reply to published Comments (after acceptance)

This is the signature CA task. The Comments are not gatekeeping — the article is already accepted — so the Reply's job is different: advance the debate in public while defending the core argument.

  1. It is published scholarship, not a rebuttal letter. Write for readers, not just commentators; it carries your name and stands beside the Comments permanently.
  2. Synthesize, don't itemize. With many commentators, group Comments by theme rather than answering line-by-line. Name the genuine disagreements and the productive extensions.
  3. Concede generously where the Comments improve the argument. Acknowledging a sharp point raises your standing; the format rewards intellectual generosity, not defensiveness.
  4. Defend the core, refine the edges. Hold the central intervention; use the Comments to sharpen scope conditions, clarify the concept, and answer the strongest critiques head-on.
  5. Honor the international range. Commentators come from many traditions and regions; engage them as peers in a worldwide conversation, including those who write from the communities you study.
  6. Protect interlocutors in public. The Reply is permanent and visible — never resolve a Comment by exposing protected people or heritage (see curranthro-transparency-and-data).
  7. Mind the word budget and copyright. Replies are length-limited and assigned to Wenner-Gren like the article; confirm the current limit with the editors.
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Triage table

Comment signalTaskDefault move
Editor flags it as decisive (pre-acceptance)A (R&R)solve first; headline in the cover note
Two referees want opposite thingsA (R&R)pick a principled path; explain the tradeoff openly
A commentator sharpens your concept (post-acceptance)B (CA✩ Reply)concede generously; fold the refinement into scope conditions
A commentator attacks the core interventionB (CA✩ Reply)defend head-on with evidence/logic; do not flinch
Any comment asks for de-anonymizing detailA or Bdecline on ethics grounds; explain the consent/harm constraint

Anti-patterns

  • Treating the CA✩ Reply like a private R&R letter (line-by-line, defensive, gatekeeping-anxious)
  • Defensiveness or dismissiveness in a permanent, public, signed document
  • Capitulating to a request that breaks the argument or endangers interlocutors
  • Conceding so thoroughly the central intervention dissolves — the Reply should advance the debate
  • Ignoring commentators from non-metropolitan traditions
  • "We thank the commentator" with no substantive engagement

Output format

【Task】A: R&R letter / B: CA✩ Reply to published Comments
【Decisive points / themes】addressed first? [list]
【Coverage】every comment (A) or every theme (B) engaged? [Y/N]
【Concede vs defend】each tagged with evidence + (A) change location / (B) how it advances the debate
【Cross-subfield / international conflicts】reconciled and explained? [Y/N]
【Contribution + ethics protected】no dilution, no de-anonymization (esp. public Reply)? [Y/N]
【Next】resubmit via Editorial Manager (A) / submit the CA✩ Reply to the editors (B)

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 Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Curranthro Rebuttal

What does Curranthro Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the author's Reply to the published CA✩ Comments. Curranthro Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the author's Reply to the published CA✩ Comments.

When should I use Curranthro Rebuttal?

Curranthro Rebuttal fits situations like: responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the authors Reply to the published CA✩ Comments; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Curranthro Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Curranthro Rebuttal in Codex?

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

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

What does Curranthro Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Curranthro 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 Curranthro 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 Curranthro Rebuttal use?

Curranthro 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 Curranthro Rebuttal use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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 Curranthro 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.