A skill your agent uses when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted.

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Install Jhe Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jhe-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/Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-rebuttal .claude/skills/jhe-rebuttal && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
jhe-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
978 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted.

  • Works in 6 steps: Opening summary — thank the editor and… → Point-by-point — quote each comment,… → Tone — gracious, concrete,… → …
  • A Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How to read a JHE decision, Response-letter structure and Triage table, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jhe Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (jhe-identification / jhe-robustness) or the submission preflight.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k 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 Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R
  • Reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted

Example prompts

  • “/jhe-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Opening summary — thank the editor and referees; state the 3–5 substantive changes that define the revision, leading with the…
  2. Point-by-point — quote each comment, then respond with: what you did, where in the paper (section/table/page), and the result. Keep one…
  3. Tone — gracious, concrete, non-defensive. Concede valid points fully; where you disagree, argue with evidence and institutional fact.
  4. Triage discipline — every comment is done (changed + located), partially done (with reason), or respectfully declined (with an…
  5. Quote the decisive number. If a referee doubted the design, show the heterogeneity-robust estimate / honest-DID bound / selection bound /…
  6. Reconcile conflicting referees by naming the trade-off and the choice the editor's priorities imply.

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

Jhe Rebuttal loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 978 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~79
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

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). 978 words, ~1,974 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jhe-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jhe-rebuttal
description
Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (jhe-identification / jhe-robustness) or the submission preflight.

Rebuttal and Response Letter (jhe-rebuttal)

When to trigger

  • A JHE R&R or reject-and-resubmit decision letter has arrived
  • You need to triage referee comments into must-do / argue / defer
  • You are drafting the response-to-referees document and the revision plan
  • Two referees disagree and you need a strategy that satisfies the editor

How to read a JHE decision

The editor's letter is the priority signal: it tells you which referee concerns are binding. At JHE the binding asks cluster around design credibility (selection, concurrent policy, staggered-DiD bias, inference) and honest scope (a coverage/utilization effect is not welfare) before exposition. Because review is single-anonymized and the referees are health economists, expect institution-specific pushback you must answer with evidence, not assertion. With ≥2 reviewers you will sometimes face conflicting requests; the editor's letter, not a majority vote, resolves them — address the editor's stated priorities first and in full.

Response-letter structure

  1. Opening summary — thank the editor and referees; state the 3–5 substantive changes that define the revision, leading with the identification/selection/scope changes.
  2. Point-by-point — quote each comment, then respond with: what you did, where in the paper (section/table/page), and the result. Keep one consistent format per point.
  3. Tone — gracious, concrete, non-defensive. Concede valid points fully; where you disagree, argue with evidence and institutional fact.
  4. Triage discipline — every comment is done (changed + located), partially done (with reason), or respectfully declined (with an evidence-based argument). Nothing is silently dropped.
  5. Quote the decisive number. If a referee doubted the design, show the heterogeneity-robust estimate / honest-DID bound / selection bound / placebo explicitly, with its SE and location.
  6. Reconcile conflicting referees by naming the trade-off and the choice the editor's priorities imply.

Triage table

Referee askDefault response
Selection / identification doubt (binding per editor)do it in full; show the new estimate or bound + SE; update the paper
Concurrent-policy / institutional confoundadd the placebo / timing argument in the institutional section
Staggered-DiD or inference fixre-estimate with CS/SA; wild-cluster bootstrap; report stability
"Coverage effect ≠ welfare"add the demand-and-cost model; rescope the claim honestly
Additional health outcome/subgrouprun with MHT; or argue out of scope with a reason
Exposition / institutional clarityrevise; cheap and builds goodwill
Out-of-scope new paperrespectfully decline with a one-line reason

Checklist

  • Editor's stated priorities identified and addressed first, in full
  • Every referee comment answered: done / partial / declined — none ignored
  • Each "done" response cites the exact section/table/page and the new result
  • Decisive identification/selection/robustness evidence quoted with numbers and SEs
  • Conflicting referee requests reconciled by reference to the editor's priorities
  • Scope claims rematched to the design where a referee flagged overreach
  • Replication package and DAS updated to match the revised exhibits (jhe-replication-package)
  • Tone gracious and concrete; disagreements argued with evidence and institutions

Coordinating the rebuttal with the rest of the pack

A response letter is only as strong as the new evidence behind it. When a binding concern requires fresh analysis, route the work to the owning skill before drafting the point: jhe-identification for a design fix, jhe-robustness for a stability check, jhe-theory-model for a welfare rescope. Then update exhibits (jhe-tables-figures) and the package and Data Availability Statement (jhe-replication-package) so the revised paper, the letter, and the deposit all tell the same story. A letter that quotes a number the revised paper does not contain is the fastest way to lose editor trust.

Anti-patterns

  • Answering the referees but ignoring the editor's prioritization
  • Defensive or dismissive tone; arguing by assertion instead of new evidence
  • Claiming a change without saying where in the paper it landed
  • A wall of new tables that dodges the actual selection/identification concern
  • Splitting the difference between conflicting referees instead of following the editor
  • Letting the replication package or DAS drift out of sync with the revised paper
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Timing and the resubmission cover note

Elsevier R&Rs do not run on a fixed clock the way some society journals do; do the work properly rather than rushing, but do not let a revision go stale — a multi-year gap invites a fresh referee pool and new objections. Open the resubmission with a short cover note to the editor (separate from the point-by-point) that lists, in three to five bullets, how each binding concern was resolved and where. Editors triage resubmissions from that note; make it carry the decisive numbers and locations so the editor can verify the binding asks were met without re-reading the whole letter.

What "resolved" means at JHE

A JHE revision is judged on whether the design and scope concerns are genuinely settled, not on the count of new tables. "Resolved" means: the selection/identification doubt is answered with an estimate or bound (not more controls); the institutional confound is ruled out with a placebo or timing argument; and any welfare/scope overreach the referee flagged is rematched to what the design identifies. A revision that adds analysis but leaves the binding concern technically un-addressed will not clear, however thick it is.

Worked vignette (illustrative)

Referee 1 calls the staggered Medicaid-expansion DiD biased and the parallel-trends story thin; Referee 2 wants more outcomes; the editor flags Referee 1 as binding. A weak response argues TWFE "should be fine." The JHE response: re-estimate with Callaway–Sant'Anna (new ATT 4.0pp, s.e. 1.1, vs. 4.6pp under TWFE), add event-study leads and a Goodman-Bacon decomposition, run an honest-DID bound, and rule out the concurrent marketplace launch with a placebo — then in the letter quote the new number, cite the exact figure/table, and note the conclusion is unchanged but now robust. Referee 2's extra outcomes are added with MHT where central and declined-with-reason where out of scope, explicitly subordinated to the editor's binding concern.

Output format

【Decision type】R&R / reject-and-resubmit / conditional accept
【Editor priorities】[binding asks, in order]
【Triage】done: [...] | partial: [...] | declined (with reason): [...]
【Decisive evidence】new identification/selection result + number(SE) + location
【Conflicting referees】reconciled via editor priorities? [Y/N]
【Scope discipline】overclaim rescoped to design? [Y/N]
【Package sync】replication + DAS updated to match revision? [Y/N]
【Next step】jhe-submission (resubmit) → re-enter jhe-workflow if further rounds

Handoff boundary

This skill plans and structures the response and the revision; it does not produce the new evidence (that is jhe-identification / jhe-robustness / jhe-theory-model) nor run the resubmission preflight (jhe-submission). When the letter is drafted and every binding concern has its evidence and location, hand off to jhe-submission to resubmit through Editorial Manager.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jhe Rebuttal

What does Jhe Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted. Jhe Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted.

When should I use Jhe Rebuttal?

Jhe Rebuttal fits situations like: A Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R; reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted.

How do I install Jhe Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jhe Rebuttal in Codex?

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

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

What does Jhe Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Jhe 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 Jhe 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 Jhe Rebuttal use?

Jhe 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 Jhe Rebuttal use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.9k 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 Jhe 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.

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