Hypothesis Generation
spacering-net/codeg
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg.
A skill your agent uses when drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window or planning a Major-Revision resubmission, covering evidence-anchored replies, the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject…
Install Issta Author Response
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-author-response -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response .claude/skills/issta-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 "issta-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response into .claude/skills/issta-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-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 issta-author-response -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response .agents/skills/issta-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 "issta-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response into .agents/skills/issta-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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 issta-author-response -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response .cursor/skills/issta-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 "issta-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response into .cursor/skills/issta-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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 ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-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 issta-author-response -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response .gemini/skills/issta-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 "issta-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response into .gemini/skills/issta-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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 issta-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 issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response .github/skills/issta-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 "issta-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response into .github/skills/issta-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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 issta-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 issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response .opencode/skills/issta-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 "issta-author-response" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response into .opencode/skills/issta-author-response/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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
issta-author-response- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 481 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 ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window or planning a Major-Revision resubmission, covering evidence-anchored replies, the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject…
- Works in 4 steps: State the decision-critical correction… → Point to the exact table, figure,… → Explain the consequence for the claim:… → …
- Drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window
- SKILL.md covers Triage, Drafting pattern, Reviewer pushback patterns and From reviews to a…, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Issta Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window or planning a Major-Revision resubmission, covering evidence-anchored replies, the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject outcome model, converting reviewer asks into a revision ledger, anonymity in the response, and the difference between a rebuttal claim and a promised change.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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. 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 ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window
- Planning a Major-Revision resubmission
- Covering evidence-anchored replies
- The Accept/Major-Revision/Reject outcome model
Example prompts
- “/issta-author-response”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- State the decision-critical correction or concession in the first line of each reply.
- Point to the exact table, figure, section, or artifact path that already answers it.
- Explain the consequence for the claim: what still holds, what you will scope down.
- Promise only changes that fit the outcome — a camera-ready wording fix for an Accept-leaning
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
Issta Author Response loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 481 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). 481 words, ~1,118 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/issta-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- issta-author-response
- description
- Use when drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window or planning a Major-Revision resubmission, covering evidence-anchored replies, the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject outcome model, converting reviewer asks into a revision ledger, anonymity in the response, and the difference between a rebuttal claim and a promised change.
ISSTA Author Response
Use this after ISSTA reviews are released. ISSTA's response step feeds a decision that is not just accept/reject: a first-round paper can be told to submit a Major Revision, so the response and the revision plan are two connected artifacts. Reopen the current author-response and major-revision instructions before drafting, because the dates and mechanics are cycle-specific.
Triage
- Answer concerns that move the decision: soundness of the technique, fairness of the evaluation, scope of the claims, comparison to related work, and verifiability. Cosmetic complaints come last.
- Use submitted evidence — paper sections, tables, the artifact, threats-to-validity discussion. Do not promise experiments you have not run unless you can run them within a Major-Revision window.
- Keep the response anonymous. Do not reveal institution, tool name if it de-anonymizes, repository ownership, or grant numbers in the rebuttal text.
- Separate a rebuttal correction (the reviewer misread something already in the paper) from a promised change (something you will add). Label which is which so the meta-reviewer can weigh the paper as-is against the paper-if-revised.
- If the review budget is tight, spend it on the one objection that, unaddressed, sinks the paper — usually an evaluation-validity or missing-baseline concern.
Drafting pattern
- State the decision-critical correction or concession in the first line of each reply.
- Point to the exact table, figure, section, or artifact path that already answers it.
- Explain the consequence for the claim: what still holds, what you will scope down.
- Promise only changes that fit the outcome — a camera-ready wording fix for an Accept-leaning paper, a concrete new experiment only if a Major-Revision window exists.
Show full SKILL.md (214 more words)Show less
Reviewer pushback patterns
| Pushback | What it signals | ISSTA-ready reply |
|---|---|---|
| "Evaluated only on your own subjects" | External-validity doubt | Point to the labelled benchmark and its provenance, or commit to adding an established one (Defects4J, real CVEs) in revision |
| "Baseline is not configured fairly" | Comparison-validity doubt | Cite the equal-budget setup, or concede and re-run the baseline under the reviewer's configuration |
| "Improvement is within noise" | Statistical-significance doubt | Reference the non-parametric test and effect size, or add repeated runs in revision |
| "Cannot tell if the artifact reproduces this" | Verifiability doubt | Point to the entry script and logged outputs, or fix the README before the artifact deadline |
From reviews to a Major-Revision ledger
When the outcome is Major Revision, convert every review comment into a tracked row: the comment, the change, where it lands in the paper, and its status. The resubmission's cover letter walks this ledger; reviewers who see each of their points addressed in order revise upward.
[R2.3] "No comparison to reversed-order rerunning."
-> Added reversed-order baseline at equal budget; Table 2, rows 4-6. STATUS: done
[R1.1] "Shared-state model undefined for native calls."
-> Scoped native state out explicitly; Section 3.1, threats. STATUS: done
[R3.2] "Overhead not reported."
-> Added per-project overhead; Table 3. STATUS: in progressDiscussion-phase calibration
- Reply precisely and early; ISSTA response windows are short and a focused rebuttal beats an exhaustive one.
- Never paste a whole new results section into the response box; summarize the finding and anchor it to submitted or clearly-promised material.
- Do not argue tone. Convert a hostile review into the technical objection underneath it and answer that.
Output format
[Priority issue] <reviewer concern>
[Decision dimension] soundness / evaluation / scope / related-work / verifiability
[Reply type] rebuttal correction / promised change
[Draft reply] <anonymous, evidence-anchored text>
[Evidence anchor] <table/figure/section/artifact path>
[Revision-ledger row] <comment -> change -> location -> status>© 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 ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Nature Paper CardYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
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What does Issta Author Response do?
A skill your agent uses when drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window or planning a Major-Revision resubmission, covering evidence-anchored replies, the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject…. Issta Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window or planning a Major-Revision resubmission, covering evidence-anchored replies, the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject outcome model, converting reviewer asks into a revision ledger, anonymity in the response, and the difference between a rebuttal claim and a promised change.
When should I use Issta Author Response?
Issta Author Response fits situations like: drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window; planning a Major-Revision resubmission; covering evidence-anchored replies; the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject outcome model.
How do I install Issta Author Response in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-author-response -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/issta-author-response in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Issta Author Response in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-author-response -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-author-response in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/issta-author-response in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Issta 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 issta-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/issta-author-response, .gemini/skills/issta-author-response, .github/skills/issta-author-response and .opencode/skills/issta-author-response in your project.
What does Issta Author Response need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Issta Author Response is instructions for the agent only.
Does Issta 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 Issta 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 Issta Author Response use?
Issta 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 Issta Author Response use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 Issta Author Response?
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Who maintains Issta 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.