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Ecj Rebuttal

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when a The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Ecj Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ecj-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/The-Economic-Journal-Skills/skills/ecj-rebuttal .claude/skills/ecj-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
ecj-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
609 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan.

  • Works in 3 steps: Cover note to the editor: thank them;… → Point-by-point, per referee, in the… → A summary of changes mapping each major…
  • A The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Reading the decision letter, Response-letter structure and Handling the EJ-typical demands, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ecj Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when a The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan. Structures the response and the diff; it does not redo the analysis (route back to ecj-identification / ecj-theory-model / ecj-robustness first).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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

  • A The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R
  • Reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan

Example prompts

  • “/ecj-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Cover note to the editor: thank them; summarize the 3–4 substantive changes; state how the paper is now stronger economically and more…
  2. Point-by-point, per referee, in the referee's order
  3. A summary of changes mapping each major comment to the revised location, so the editor can verify at a glance.

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

Ecj Rebuttal loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 609 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 609 words, ~1,321 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ecj-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ecj-rebuttal
description
Use when a The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan. Structures the response and the diff; it does not redo the analysis (route back to ecj-identification / ecj-theory-model / ecj-robustness first).

R&R Response & Rebuttal (ecj-rebuttal)

When to trigger

  • An EJ R&R (or reject-with-encouragement-to-resubmit) letter has arrived
  • You have referee reports and need a point-by-point response plan
  • You are deciding which requests to implement, which to push back on, and how
  • The revision is drafted and you need the response letter to accompany it

Do the revisions before writing the letter. The letter documents changes already made; it should never promise work that is not in the revised manuscript.

Reading the decision letter

  • The editor's letter is the binding document (at EJ a handling editor coordinates the report; editor-in-chief Francesco Lippi, verified 2026-06-20). Identify which referee points the editor flags as essential vs. optional and prioritize accordingly.
  • Separate requests into: (a) must-do for the editor, (b) reasonable and cheap, (c) costly or wrong-headed. Negotiate (c) with evidence, not assertion.
  • An EJ editor and referees care most about the economic argument and broad interest: expect demands to strengthen the mechanism, broaden the relevance / bound the generality, or sharpen identification. Treat those as first-order.
  • Plan replication readiness now: acceptance triggers the EJ Data Editor's pre-acceptance reproducibility check and a Zenodo deposit (see ecj-replication-package).

Response-letter structure

  1. Cover note to the editor: thank them; summarize the 3–4 substantive changes; state how the paper is now stronger economically and more broadly relevant. One page.
  2. Point-by-point, per referee, in the referee's order:
    • Quote (or paraphrase) the comment.
    • State the change made, with the new text/exhibit and where it now lives (section, table, page).
    • Where you disagree, respond with evidence and economic reasoning — concede what is fair, hold the line where you are right, and never be defensive.
  3. A summary of changes mapping each major comment to the revised location, so the editor can verify at a glance.

Tone: respectful, concise, confident. Every response is either "done, here it is" or "we respectfully differ, and here is why." Avoid hedging and avoid over-promising future work. Because EJ review is single-blind, you already know the report is read by referees who see your identity — keep the tone collegial.

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Handling the EJ-typical demands

  • "Broaden the relevance / it reads too narrow" → route to ecj-topic-selection / ecj-literature-positioning; make the general lesson and external relevance explicit, or bound the claim honestly.
  • "Strengthen the mechanism" → route to ecj-theory-model; add the model result or the discriminating test, then report it.
  • "Rule out alternative X" → route to ecj-robustness; add the discriminating test, summarize in text, table in appendix.
  • "Identification is not convincing" → route to ecj-identification; add diagnostics/falsification or reframe the claim to what the design supports.
  • "Improve the exposition" → route to ecj-writing-style; at EJ this is substantive, not cosmetic — take it seriously.
  • Conflicting referees → flag the conflict to the editor and explain the path you chose and why.

Checklist

  • Every referee point has an explicit response (none skipped)
  • Each "done" response points to the exact revised location
  • Disagreements backed by evidence/economic reasoning, framed respectfully
  • Editor's essential requests all addressed first
  • Broad-interest / mechanism / identification demands treated as first-order
  • Exposition improvements taken seriously (EJ bar)
  • Replication package on track for the EJ Data Editor if acceptance follows
  • Revisions are actually in the manuscript before the letter is written
  • Summary-of-changes table maps comments → locations
  • No new claim is over-promised without being delivered

Anti-patterns

  • Writing the response letter before doing the revisions
  • Skipping or merging referee points to seem responsive
  • Defensive or dismissive tone toward a fair criticism
  • Conceding a correct result because a referee pushed hard (defend it with evidence)
  • Promising "future work" in place of an analysis the editor asked for now
  • Dismissing an exposition request as cosmetic when at EJ it carries weight
  • Ignoring the editor's prioritization and treating all comments as equal

Output format

【Decision】R&R / reject-with-encouragement
【Editor's essential points】1... 2... 3...
【Per-referee plan】R1: [done / push-back + evidence] ; R2: ... ; R3: ...
【First-order (broad-interest/mechanism/ID)】how addressed
【Exposition】improvements made? [y/n]
【Revisions complete before letter】[y/n]
【Summary-of-changes table】drafted? [y/n]
【Replication readiness】code ready for EJ Data Editor on accept? [y/n]
【Next】resubmit via Editorial Express (ecj-submission for format re-check)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in The-Economic-Journal-Skills/skills/ecj-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ecj Rebuttal

What does Ecj Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when a The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan. Ecj Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when a The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan.

When should I use Ecj Rebuttal?

Ecj Rebuttal fits situations like: A The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R; reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan.

How do I install Ecj Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ecj Rebuttal in Codex?

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

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

What does Ecj Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Ecj 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 Ecj 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 Ecj Rebuttal use?

Ecj 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 Ecj Rebuttal use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Ecj Rebuttal?

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Who maintains Ecj 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.