Agent skill

Epsl Revision And Rebuttal

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

A skill your agent uses when responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Epsl Revision And Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-revision-and-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/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal .claude/skills/epsl-revision-and-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
epsl-revision-and-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
549 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 an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision.

  • Works in 6 steps: Mine the editor's letter first. The… → Answer every point, point-by-point.… → Route additions to the supplement. New… → …
  • Responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Strategy, Triaging EPSL referee asks and Response-letter format, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Epsl Revision And Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision. EPSL decisions are made by a subject editor on the advice of referees who often span two sub-fields, so the response must satisfy each specialist with evidence while keeping the Letter concise. It structures the revision and response letter; it does not fabricate new results.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Mine the editor's letter first. The handling editor is a specialist and usually signals which
  2. Answer every point, point-by-point. Quote each comment, respond beneath it, and cite the exact
  3. Route additions to the supplement. New robustness tests, standards tables, and sensitivity
  4. Rebut with data, concede with grace. A disagreement backed by a new calculation or a cited
  5. Reconcile cross-field conflicts explicitly. When the geochemist wants more caveats and the
  6. Keep numbers synchronized. Any re-reduction or added analysis updates the manuscript, the

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

Epsl Revision And Rebuttal loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 98 tokens; SKILL.md has 549 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~98
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 549 words, ~1,444 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
epsl-revision-and-rebuttal
description
Use when responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision. EPSL decisions are made by a subject editor on the advice of referees who often span two sub-fields, so the response must satisfy each specialist with evidence while keeping the Letter concise. It structures the revision and response letter; it does not fabricate new results.

Revision & Rebuttal (epsl-revision-and-rebuttal)

An EPSL revision has a specific tension: referees ask for additions — more standards data, another sensitivity case, an alternative-hypothesis discussion — while the letters format refuses to grow. The craft is to satisfy every technical demand in the supplement and deposit while the main text stays near the cap, and to remember that the subject editor, not the referees, makes the call.

When to trigger

  • A major/minor revision decision arrived and you are planning the response
  • Referees from different sub-fields pull in different directions
  • A requested addition would blow the word cap
  • Drafting the summary-of-changes note to the editor

Strategy

  1. Mine the editor's letter first. The handling editor is a specialist and usually signals which referee points are decisive; resolve those with new evidence, not prose.
  2. Answer every point, point-by-point. Quote each comment, respond beneath it, and cite the exact location of the change (section, figure, table, supplement item, repository DOI). Unanswered comments read as evasion.
  3. Route additions to the supplement. New robustness tests, standards tables, and sensitivity cases go to the supplementary material and repositories; the main text absorbs only conclusions. State this routing openly — EPSL editors know the format's constraint and respect it.
  4. Rebut with data, concede with grace. A disagreement backed by a new calculation or a cited constraint is persuasive; a disagreement backed by adjectives is not. Where the referee is right, fix it and say so plainly.
  5. Reconcile cross-field conflicts explicitly. When the geochemist wants more caveats and the geodynamicist wants a bolder claim, choose a principled position and explain the trade-off to the editor — the adjudicator — rather than splitting the difference incoherently.
  6. Keep numbers synchronized. Any re-reduction or added analysis updates the manuscript, the supplement, and the deposited tables together; a mismatch discovered in round two is fatal to trust.
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Triaging EPSL referee asks

Referee askDefault modeWhat to show
"Report full standards/blank data"concede → supplementthe per-session traceability table
"The feature may be a resolution artifact"test, then rebut or scopethe recovery test at that node
"Consider alternative hypothesis H"engage seriouslya discriminating calculation, or an honest scope limit
"Harmonize with published ages"concederecalculated comparison, constants stated
"Expand the regional context"resist politelyletters format; one sentence + citations
"Tone down the global claim"negotiatekeep the portable claim, bound its domain

Response-letter format

> [Quoted referee comment]

Response: [what changed / why we respectfully disagree, with evidence].
Change: [Section X / Fig. Y / Table S3 / EarthChem DOI updated].

Open with a one-paragraph summary of the major changes for the editor; group by referee; keep the tone even toward a hostile review — the editor reads your temperament as a proxy for your rigor.

Worked micro-example (illustrative — answering a resolution objection)

Referee 2 (seismologist, illustrative): "The low-velocity conduit lies near the edge of ray coverage; I suspect vertical smearing."

> The low-velocity conduit lies near the edge of ray coverage; I suspect
> vertical smearing.

Response: We agree coverage thins there and have tested the concern directly.
A synthetic conduit restricted to <80 km depth, run through the identical
inversion, does not reproduce the observed anomaly at 120 km; recovery at the
key node is 78% (illustrative). The feature therefore cannot be explained as
smearing of shallow structure. New Supplementary Fig. S7 shows the full test;
the main text now states the recovery value where the conduit is first named.
Change: Section 4.2 (one sentence); Fig. S7; inversion configs updated at
Zenodo (DOI: illustrative).

The pattern: reproduce the referee's alternative inside your own machinery, show it fails, and spend one main-text sentence on it — the rest lives in the supplement.

Anti-patterns

  • Growing the main text past the cap to appease referees instead of routing to the supplement
  • Answering a technical objection with rhetoric or seniority
  • Silently dropping a comment, or merging two comments to avoid one
  • Capitulating on the portable claim, leaving a Letter with no letter-worthy result
  • Updated figures whose underlying deposited tables were never refreshed

Output format

【Editor's decisive points】listed + resolved with evidence
【Coverage】every comment quoted and answered? [Y/N]
【Routing】additions → supplement/deposit; main text within cap? [Y/N]
【Rebuttals】each backed by a calculation/citation? [Y/N]
【Cross-field conflicts】reconciled for the editor? [Y/N or N/A]
【Sync】manuscript = supplement = deposit? [Y/N]
【Next】resubmit via Editorial Manager

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 Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Epsl Revision And Rebuttal

What does Epsl Revision And Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision. Epsl Revision And Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision.

When should I use Epsl Revision And Rebuttal?

Epsl Revision And Rebuttal fits situations like: responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Epsl Revision And Rebuttal in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-revision-and-rebuttal -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Epsl Revision And Rebuttal in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-revision-and-rebuttal -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Epsl Revision And 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 epsl-revision-and-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/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal, .gemini/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal, .github/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal and .opencode/skills/epsl-revision-and-rebuttal in your project.

What does Epsl Revision And Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Epsl Revision And 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 Epsl Revision And 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 Epsl Revision And Rebuttal use?

Epsl Revision And 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 Epsl Revision And Rebuttal use?

About 1.4k 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 Epsl Revision And Rebuttal?

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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.