A skill your agent uses when writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Eursr Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eursr-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/European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-rebuttal .claude/skills/eursr-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
eursr-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
629 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit.

  • Works in 6 steps: Read the editor's letter as the rubric.… → One point-by-point response, every… → Concede or rebut explicitly, with… → …
  • Writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Strategy, Response-letter format and Triage grid for an ESR R&R, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Eursr Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit. ESR R&Rs typically demand substantial revision and reviewers focus on comparative design, measurement equivalence, and modeling, so the response must convert each reviewer while keeping the editor confident. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate new results.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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

  • Writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/eursr-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the editor's letter as the rubric. The editor flags which points are decisive — solve those
  2. One point-by-point response, every comment addressed. Quote each comment, then respond. Never
  3. Concede or rebut explicitly, with evidence. For each: did what was asked (say where, with the new
  4. Answer modeling and measurement demands on their own terms. A request for invariance tests,
  5. Protect the contribution. Add robustness, invariance, and clarifications; resist changes that
  6. Keep anonymity intact in the revised manuscript, and update the **Data Availability Statement and

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

Eursr Rebuttal loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 629 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~95
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 629 words, ~1,561 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eursr-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eursr-rebuttal
description
Use when writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit. ESR R&Rs typically demand substantial revision and reviewers focus on comparative design, measurement equivalence, and modeling, so the response must convert each reviewer while keeping the editor confident. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate new results.

R&R Rebuttal (eursr-rebuttal)

An ESR R&R is the normal road to publication for a promising paper — and it usually asks for substantial revision. Reviewers focus on the comparative design, measurement equivalence, and the modeling (level, clustering, few-cluster inference), so the response letter must satisfy a quantitative skeptic without breaking the paper, while the editor adjudicates.

When to trigger

  • An R&R decision arrived and you are planning the revision + response letter
  • Reviewers disagree (e.g., one wants more countries, another a different estimator)
  • A reviewer requests analyses or measurement changes that would change the claims
  • Writing the cover note to the editor summarizing the revision

Strategy

  1. Read the editor's letter as the rubric. The editor flags which points are decisive — solve those first; the editor adjudicates conflicts among reviewers.
  2. One point-by-point response, every comment addressed. Quote each comment, then respond. Never skip one — silence reads as non-compliance.
  3. Concede or rebut explicitly, with evidence. For each: did what was asked (say where, with the new text/table number), or push back respectfully with a reason (theory, design, or measurement). A well-argued disagreement beats a capitulation that weakens the paper.
  4. Answer modeling and measurement demands on their own terms. A request for invariance tests, df-aware SEs, a leave-one-country-out check, or an alternative harmonization should be run and reported honestly — these are ESR's core review currency.
  5. Protect the contribution. Add robustness, invariance, and clarifications; resist changes that dilute the portable mechanism or the comparative leverage that earned the R&R.
  6. Keep anonymity intact in the revised manuscript, and update the Data Availability Statement and replication package so any new tables/figures stay reproducible (see eursr-transparency-and-data).

Response-letter format

For each reviewer comment:

> [Quoted reviewer comment]

Response: [What we did / why we respectfully disagree].
Change: [Section/page/table-figure number where the revision appears].

Open with a short summary of the main changes to the editor; group by reviewer; end each entry with the location of the change so the editor can verify quickly.

Triage grid for an ESR R&R

Comment typeDefault response
Editor's decisive pointdo it; never argue these away
Modeling/measurement check you can run (invariance, df SEs, LOO)run it; report honestly even if mixed
"Add more countries / waves"add if feasible; if not, justify the set and bound the claim
Request that dilutes the mechanism or comparative leveragerebut respectfully with a reason
Show full SKILL.md (256 more words)Show less

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A comparative attitudes paper gets an R&R where R1 doubts measurement equivalence and R2 thinks the macro effect rests on too few clusters.

R1: "Are the attitude scales comparable across countries?"
  Response: Added configural/metric/scalar invariance tests (Appendix Table A3); scalar fails for 3
  countries → re-estimated with partial scalar invariance; substantive conclusion unchanged. Change: §4.2.
R2: "24 countries can't support that macro claim."
  Response: Re-ran macro inference with a wild cluster bootstrap and a Bayesian two-level model
  (Table 5); interaction CI widens but excludes zero; macro claim tempered. Change: §5.1, Appendix B.

The letter concedes where evidence warrants, runs the modeling checks on their own terms, and protects the contribution by showing the cross-level result survives the stricter inference.

Referee pushback → ESR-specific fix

  • "The revision didn't change anything." → End each entry with an exact location; visible change beats a thank-you.
  • "You ignored the invariance issue." → Run the invariance tests, report the level reached, and state what partial invariance licenses.
  • "You over-claim from few clusters." → Re-estimate with df-aware or Bayesian methods and temper the macro claim rather than defending the original SEs.

Calibration anchors

  • The editor's letter is the rubric. At ESR the editor weights reviewers; solving the decisive points first converts an R&R.
  • Run the modeling checks. Invariance, few-cluster inference, and leave-one-country-out are ESR's review currency — running them honestly is more persuasive than arguing them away.
  • Substantial means substantial. Plan for a heavy revision; a light pass reads as non-engagement.

Anti-patterns

  • Ignoring or merging away a comment without a visible response
  • Capitulating to a request that breaks the paper's logic just to please a reviewer
  • Dismissing a measurement-equivalence or few-cluster objection instead of addressing it
  • "We thank the reviewer" with no actual change or argued reason
  • New analyses that quietly contradict the original claim without acknowledgment
  • Reintroducing identifying information into the revised (still anonymous) manuscript

Output format

【Editor's decisive points】addressed first? [list]
【Coverage】every reviewer comment answered? [Y/N]
【Concede vs rebut】each tagged with evidence + change location
【Modeling/measurement checks】invariance / few-cluster / LOO run and reported? [Y/N]
【Contribution protected】no dilution of mechanism / comparative leverage? [Y/N]
【Anonymity + DAS/package updated】[Y/N]
【Next】resubmit via ScholarOne

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 European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eursr Rebuttal

What does Eursr Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit. Eursr Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit.

When should I use Eursr Rebuttal?

Eursr Rebuttal fits situations like: writing the response to a European Sociological Review (ESR) revise-and-resubmit; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Eursr Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Eursr Rebuttal in Codex?

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

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

What does Eursr Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Eursr 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 Eursr 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 Eursr Rebuttal use?

Eursr 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 Eursr Rebuttal use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k 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 Eursr 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.