A skill your agent uses when drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period, covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all…

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Install Icsme Author Response

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icsme-author-response -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icsme-author-response --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/ICSME-Skills/skills/icsme-author-response .claude/skills/icsme-author-response && 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
icsme-author-response
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
565 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period, covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all…

  • Drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period
  • SKILL.md covers First: read which bucket you…, Triage the questions the PC…, Structure a single-round ICSME… and Reviewer pushback patterns, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all

What it does

Icsme Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period, covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all, answering the PC's specific "Response Recommended" questions with existing evidence, staying anonymous, and doing it in one round with no Major Revision safety net.

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.

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

  • Drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period
  • Covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all
  • Answering the PCs specific Response Recommended questions with existing evidence
  • Staying anonymous

Example prompts

  • “s specific”
  • “/icsme-author-response”

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

Icsme Author Response loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 565 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
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). 565 words, ~1,274 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/icsme-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
icsme-author-response
description
Use when drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period, covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all, answering the PC's specific "Response Recommended" questions with existing evidence, staying anonymous, and doing it in one round with no Major Revision safety net.

ICSME Author Response

Use this after ICSME early decisions are released. ICSME gives authors one speaking turn, and whether you get it at all is decided first: at the start of the author-response period, papers are sorted into Accept, Reject, or Response Recommended. Only "Response Recommended" papers write a rebuttal, and because there is no Major Revision round, that rebuttal is the last word before the final decision.

First: read which bucket you are in

  • Early Accept — do not write a defensive response; move to camera-ready and the ROSE artifact.
  • Early Reject — no response is requested; a response would not be read. Reroute or rebuild.
  • Response Recommended — you are in contention. The PC has specific questions; the rest of this skill is for you.

Triage the questions the PC actually asked

  • Answer the specific questions the PC raised in the response invitation first — they are what the discussion will turn on. A rebuttal that ignores the flagged questions to relitigate the reviews' tone is wasted.
  • Use evidence that already exists in the submitted paper or artifact. ICSME cannot accept "we will add this" — there is no revision round to add it in. Point to where the answer lives.
  • Correct factual misreadings first; a reviewer who misread a change-history table or a mining criterion is often persuadable within one round.
  • Keep every word anonymous. Do not name your tool's real name, your own subject system, your institution, grant, or a private repository, even to strengthen a point.

Structure a single-round ICSME rebuttal

Short and decision-focused. Address the PC's questions in priority order; one decisive answer per reviewer beats an exhaustive reply.

text
[Q1 - reviewer question, quoted briefly]
     -> Answer: the held-out result they asked for is already in Table 3 (§4.2); we clarify it here
     -> Evidence: §4.2, Table 3; artifact/analysis/rq2 logs (anonymized location)
[Q2 - "is the baseline tuned fairly?"]
     -> Answer: both tools ran with the equal, documented budget in §4.1; we restate the setting
[Q3 - "does this generalize beyond one ecosystem?"]
     -> Answer: we scope the claim to the studied systems and name it as an external-validity
        threat in §5.2; we cannot add subjects in this round and do not claim we can

The rule that wins a single-round rebuttal: answer what was asked with what already exists, and concede cleanly what you cannot show. Overclaiming a fix you cannot make in a non-revision process is what a careful PC catches.

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Reviewer pushback patterns

PushbackWhat it signalsICSME-ready response
"The baseline is not tuned/fair"Soundness doubt about the comparisonPoint to the equal, documented budget already in the paper; restate the numbers
"This is a proxy for the real maintenance outcome"Construct-validity objectionPoint to the audited subsample or bound the proxy; state the residual threat
"Does this hold beyond one system's history?"External-validity limitScope the claim to the studied systems; name the threat — do not promise new mining
"The mined corpus is not reproducible"Open-science / provenance gapPoint to pinned SHAs, extraction dates, and the anonymized dataset in the artifact
"Overlaps prior maintenance work X"Novelty/delta doubtSharpen the delta sentence against X using what is already in the paper

Anonymity in the response (easy to slip)

  • Refer to your own prior maintenance/evolution work in the third person, as in the paper.
  • Describe the artifact without linking to an identity-revealing repository or your public org.
  • Do not name the real subject system if naming it would reveal the authors; use the anonymized descriptor from the paper.
  • Do not thank a named collaborator or funder inside the response.

Calibration

  • Respond to the criterion the reviewer actually raised, not the one you would rather defend.
  • There is no second round: do not defer the answer to a "camera-ready version" the PC has not seen.
  • The PC discussion decides; the response is evidence for an advocate in that discussion, not a closing argument.
  • Response length and format vary by cycle; confirm the current instructions before sending.

Output format

text
[Bucket] early accept / response recommended / early reject
[PC question] <the specific question being answered>
[Decision dimension] significance / soundness / evidence / threats / clarity / open-science
[Answer ledger] <question -> answer + where the supporting evidence already lives>
[Anonymity check] <no identity leak in the response: passed/issues>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in ICSME-Skills/skills/icsme-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Icsme Author Response

What does Icsme Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period, covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all…. Icsme Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period, covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all, answering the PC's specific "Response Recommended" questions with existing evidence, staying anonymous, and doing it in one round with no Major Revision safety net.

When should I use Icsme Author Response?

Icsme Author Response fits situations like: drafting an IEEE ICSME author response during the double-anonymous author-response period; covering the early-decision cut that decides whether you respond at all; answering the PCs specific Response Recommended questions with existing evidence; staying anonymous.

How do I install Icsme Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Icsme Author Response in Codex?

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

Can I use Icsme 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 icsme-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/icsme-author-response, .gemini/skills/icsme-author-response, .github/skills/icsme-author-response and .opencode/skills/icsme-author-response in your project.

What does Icsme Author Response need to run?

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

Does Icsme 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 Icsme 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 Icsme Author Response use?

Icsme 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 Icsme Author Response use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Icsme Author Response?

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Who maintains Icsme 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.