A skill your agent uses when writing the response to a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit.

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Install Joap Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills joap-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-Applied-Psychology-Skills/skills/joap-rebuttal .claude/skills/joap-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
joap-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
560 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 Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit.

  • Works in 6 steps: Read the editor's letter as the rubric.… → Point-by-point, every comment. Quote… → Strengthen the contribution, don't just… → …
  • Writing the response to a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Strategy, Response-letter format and Worked micro-example…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Joap Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing the response to a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit. JAP R&Rs typically demand stronger theory, added rigor (alternative models, CMV checks, robustness), and fuller transparency across multiple reviewers and an action editor. The response must address every point, strengthen the contribution, and keep masking intact. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate 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 Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/joap-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the editor's letter as the rubric. The action editor adjudicates among reviewers and tells
  2. Point-by-point, every comment. Quote each comment, then respond; never skip or silently merge one.
  3. Strengthen the contribution, don't just defend. Many requests (sharper mechanism, alternative
  4. Test rival explanations head-on. JAP reviewers raise alternative models and method artifacts;
  5. Place new material wisely. Core new evidence belongs in the manuscript; extended robustness,
  6. Keep masking and transparency in sync. Maintain anonymization in the revised manuscript 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

Joap Rebuttal loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 560 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~109
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). 560 words, ~1,578 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/joap-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
joap-rebuttal
description
Use when writing the response to a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit. JAP R&Rs typically demand stronger theory, added rigor (alternative models, CMV checks, robustness), and fuller transparency across multiple reviewers and an action editor. The response must address every point, strengthen the contribution, and keep masking intact. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate results.

R&R Rebuttal (joap-rebuttal)

A JAP R&R is demanding and usually multi-round. Reviewers and the action editor typically ask for a sharper theoretical contribution, added methodological rigor (alternative models, CMV diagnostics, robustness, measurement evidence), and fuller transparency. The response letter must convert every reviewer, reassure the editor on the dual gate (theory + rigor), and keep the masked manuscript anonymized.

When to trigger

  • An R&R arrived and you are planning the revision + response letter
  • Reviewers requested added analyses, alternative models, robustness, or open-science changes
  • A requested analysis would change the claim or the contribution
  • Writing the cover note to the action editor

Strategy

  1. Read the editor's letter as the rubric. The action editor adjudicates among reviewers and tells you which points are decisive — solve those first and visibly.
  2. Point-by-point, every comment. Quote each comment, then respond; never skip or silently merge one.
  3. Strengthen the contribution, don't just defend. Many requests (sharper mechanism, alternative models tested, CMV diagnostics, measurement invariance, robustness) make the paper stronger — do them and say where. If the theory advance is the weak point, rebuild it (route to joap-theory-and-hypotheses).
  4. Test rival explanations head-on. JAP reviewers raise alternative models and method artifacts; run and report them rather than hand-waving — concede where a rival fits better, defend with evidence where it does not.
  5. Place new material wisely. Core new evidence belongs in the manuscript; extended robustness, invariance, and alternative-model tables usually go to online supplemental materials, summarized in one sentence in the main text.
  6. Keep masking and transparency in sync. Maintain anonymization in the revised manuscript and repository links, and reflect new analyses in the shared data/code and the data-availability statement (see joap-open-science-and-transparency).

Response-letter format

For each reviewer comment:

> [Quoted reviewer comment]

Response: [What we did / why we respectfully disagree, with evidence].
Change: [Main text section, supplement section, or table/figure number].

Open with a short summary of the main changes to the action editor; group by reviewer; end each entry with the location.

Worked micro-example (illustrative response entries)

For the servant-leadership package, an R&R asked for an alternative model, a CMV check, and a sharper boundary.

> R2: Could reverse causality or a third variable explain the safety→
> performance path? An alternative model should be tested.

Response: We agree. We now test (a) the reversed mediation and (b) a model with
prior team performance (Wave 0) as a control; the hypothesized 2-2-2 model fits
better (ΔCFI > .01) and the indirect effect remains (.11, 95% CI [.04, .20]).
The lab experiment provides the causal warrant for the safety path.
Change: Results (alternative models); robustness grid → Supplement S4.

> R1: Same-source bias may inflate the field correlations.

Response: Predictor and outcome were separated by wave and source (member-rated
leadership/safety; supervisor-rated performance). We add a CFA marker-variable
test; estimates are essentially unchanged.
Change: Method (design separation), Results (marker test), Transparency statement.
Show full SKILL.md (231 more words)Show less

R&R triage — where each request lands

Reviewer askDefault homeNote
Alternative / reverse-causal modelResults (core) + supplement detailthis often decides the paper
CMV diagnostic (marker, ULMC)Method + Resultspair with the procedural remedies already used
Measurement invariance / extra validitysupplementsummarize one sentence in main text
Robustness / sensitivity gridsupplementcite from one main-text sentence
"Sharpen the contribution"Introduction + Theoryrebuild the mechanism/boundary, don't just reword
"Soften causal language"throughoutscale verbs to the design; reserve causation for the experiment

Recurring R&R pushback and the venue fix

  • "Theory is still thin" → do not just expand the literature; articulate the new mechanism/boundary and rederive the hypotheses (route to joap-theory-and-hypotheses).
  • "You didn't rule out the alternative" → run the rival model and report the comparison; this is the most common reason a JAP R&R fails.
  • "Added analysis quietly weakens the effect" → disclose it, interpret it, adjust the claim; concealment is the cardinal sin.
  • "Data/code don't reflect the revision" → update the deposit and the data-availability statement.

Anti-patterns

  • Ignoring or merging away a comment without a visible response
  • Defending against an alternative model instead of testing it
  • Adding analyses that contradict the original claim without acknowledgment
  • Rewording the introduction and calling it a strengthened contribution
  • Letting shared data/code/transparency statement drift out of sync with the revision
  • Reintroducing identifying information into the masked revision

Output format

【Editor's decisive points】addressed first? [list]
【Coverage】every reviewer comment answered? [Y/N]
【Contribution strengthened】mechanism/boundary sharpened? [Y/N]
【Rigor strengthened】alternative models + CMV + robustness added? [Y/N]
【Placement】core in main text, extended in supplement? [Y/N]
【Open-science + masking】data/code/statement updated; anonymization intact? [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 Journal-of-Applied-Psychology-Skills/skills/joap-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Joap Rebuttal

What does Joap Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when writing the response to a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit. Joap Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing the response to a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit.

When should I use Joap Rebuttal?

Joap Rebuttal fits situations like: writing the response to a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) revise-and-resubmit; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Joap Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Joap Rebuttal in Codex?

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

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

What does Joap Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Joap 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 Joap 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 Joap Rebuttal use?

Joap 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 Joap Rebuttal use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k 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 Joap 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.