Peer Review
spacering-net/codeg
Structured manuscript/grant review with checklist-based evaluation.
A skill your agent uses when handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise, evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an…
Install Dac Author Response
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill dac-author-response -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills dac-author-response --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response .claude/skills/dac-author-response && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "dac-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response into .claude/skills/dac-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dac-author-response", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-responseType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill dac-author-response -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills dac-author-response --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response .agents/skills/dac-author-response && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "dac-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response into .agents/skills/dac-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dac-author-response", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill dac-author-response -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills dac-author-response --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response .cursor/skills/dac-author-response && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "dac-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response into .cursor/skills/dac-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dac-author-response", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill dac-author-response -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills dac-author-response --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response .gemini/skills/dac-author-response && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "dac-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response into .gemini/skills/dac-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dac-author-response", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills dac-author-responseInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill dac-author-response -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response .github/skills/dac-author-response && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "dac-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response into .github/skills/dac-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dac-author-response", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill dac-author-response -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills dac-author-response --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response .opencode/skills/dac-author-response && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "dac-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response into .opencode/skills/dac-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dac-author-response", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
dac-author-response- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 531 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise, evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an…
- Works in 4 steps: Fix factual errors first — a reviewer… → Answer the baseline objection with… → Address scalability with data — cite the… → …
- Handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise
- SKILL.md covers Situation A — the cycle runs a…, Situation B — no rebuttal,…, If you reroute to a journal… and What never works, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Dac Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise, evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an author-response period (verify; DAC has historically not), and otherwise converting DAC reviews into a targeted response-to-reviewers when rerouting a rejected paper to ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, or a journal.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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
- Handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise
- Evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an author-response period (verify
- DAC has historically not)
- Otherwise converting DAC reviews into a targeted response-to-reviewers when rerouting a rejected paper to ICCAD
Example prompts
- “/dac-author-response”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Fix factual errors first — a reviewer who thinks you did not compare against tool X when
- Answer the baseline objection with evidence — if a reviewer names a stronger baseline, report
- Address scalability with data — cite the largest-benchmark runtime already in the paper, or
- Concede cheaply, defend what matters — accept small corrections plainly; spend your words on
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
Dac Author Response loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 531 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 531 words, ~1,152 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/dac-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- dac-author-response
- description
- Use when handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise, evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an author-response period (verify; DAC has historically not), and otherwise converting DAC reviews into a targeted response-to-reviewers when rerouting a rejected paper to ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, or a journal.
DAC Author Response
Handle reviews with DAC's process in mind. The single most important fact: DAC's Research-Manuscript
review has historically been TPC-driven without an author rebuttal period, and whether the
current cycle runs one is 待核实 (resources/official-source-map.md). So this skill covers two
situations, and the second is the common one.
Situation A — the cycle runs a response period (verify first)
If — and only if — the live DAC cycle offers an author response, treat it as a short, factual correction channel, not a debate. EDA reviewers reject mostly on baseline fairness, benchmark credibility, and scalability; a response moves a borderline paper when it supplies a number or corrects a factual misreading, and moves nothing when it argues taste.
Priorities for a tight EDA rebuttal (assume a strict word budget):
- Fix factual errors first — a reviewer who thinks you did not compare against tool X when Table 2 does; point to the table.
- Answer the baseline objection with evidence — if a reviewer names a stronger baseline, report the number if you have it, or commit precisely to what you will add and why it will not change the conclusion.
- Address scalability with data — cite the largest-benchmark runtime already in the paper, or give the missing figure.
- Concede cheaply, defend what matters — accept small corrections plainly; spend your words on the one or two objections that actually decide the paper.
Do not promise experiments you cannot run before camera-ready, and do not introduce author-revealing information — the response is still within double-blind.
[Reviewer 2] "No comparison to [SOTA router]."
Response: We compare against [SOTA router] in Table 2 (columns 4-6); on the full ISPD set we reduce
overflow by X% at equal wirelength. We will make this comparison more prominent.Show full SKILL.md (279 more words)Show less
Situation B — no rebuttal, then a reject (the common case)
With no response channel, the review packet arrives with the decision. The productive use of DAC reviews is then to repair the paper and reroute it well. DAC, ICCAD, DATE, and ASP-DAC share reviewer pools and criteria, so a DAC reviewer's objection is very likely to resurface at the next venue — answer it in the paper, not in a letter no one will read.
Turn the reviews into a fix list:
| DAC review objection | Fix before resubmitting elsewhere |
|---|---|
| Weak/untuned baseline | Add the strongest SOTA tool, tuned to equal effort, before ICCAD/DATE |
| Private benchmarks only | Re-run on ISPD/EPFL/ISCAS/ITC/TAU so the QoR is comparable |
| Scalability doubted | Add million-cell-scale results and runtime |
| Gain not isolated | Add the ablation the reviewer implicitly asked for |
| Incremental novelty | Extend the mechanism, or reframe honestly for a journal (TCAD/TODAES) |
If you reroute to a journal (TCAD/TODAES), a response letter does exist
Journals do run revise-and-resubmit with a point-by-point response. There, write the letter DAC
never asked for: map every reviewer point to a tracked change, quote the review, state the change,
and give the new number. That is where the discipline of ../dac-experiments pays off — a rejected
DAC paper with a strong QoR story often becomes a clean journal accept.
What never works
- Arguing novelty by assertion — "our approach is fundamentally different" without a QoR delta persuades no EDA reviewer.
- Blaming the benchmarks — if the standard suite does not flatter you, that is a signal, not an excuse.
- Waiting for a rebuttal that may not come — build the paper so it needs no rebuttal; the baseline and benchmark choices must be unimpeachable at submission.
Output format
[Response mode] rebuttal (cycle confirmed) / no-rebuttal reroute / journal response letter
[Decision driver] baseline | benchmark | scalability | novelty | clarity
[Point map] each review point -> factual correction | evidence | conceded | reframe
[If rerouting] target venue (ICCAD/DATE/ASP-DAC/TCAD) + the top fix to make first
[Anonymity] response (if any) free of author-revealing info? yes/no© 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 DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Academic Paper ReviewerImbad0202/academic-research-skills | 51k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Peer ReviewK-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT |
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What does Dac Author Response do?
A skill your agent uses when handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise, evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an…. Dac Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise, evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an author-response period (verify; DAC has historically not), and otherwise converting DAC reviews into a targeted response-to-reviewers when rerouting a rejected paper to ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, or a journal.
When should I use Dac Author Response?
Dac Author Response fits situations like: handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise; evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an author-response period (verify; DAC has historically not); otherwise converting DAC reviews into a targeted response-to-reviewers when rerouting a rejected paper to ICCAD.
How do I install Dac Author Response in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill dac-author-response -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/dac-author-response in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Dac Author Response in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill dac-author-response -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (DAC-Skills/skills/dac-author-response in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/dac-author-response in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Dac 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 dac-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/dac-author-response, .gemini/skills/dac-author-response, .github/skills/dac-author-response and .opencode/skills/dac-author-response in your project.
What does Dac Author Response need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Dac Author Response is instructions for the agent only.
Does Dac 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 Dac 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 Dac Author Response use?
Dac 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 Dac Author Response use?
About 1.2k 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 Dac Author Response?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Dac Author Response: Peer Review (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), Scholar Evaluation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), Academic Paper Writing Pipeline (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars) and Academic Paper Reviewer (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Dac 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.