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Agent skill

Newms Rebuttal

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when responding to a New Media & Society (NM&S) revise-and-resubmit decision — building a point-by-point response letter to multiple interdisciplinary reviewers plus the…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Newms Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills newms-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/New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-rebuttal .claude/skills/newms-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
newms-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
468 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when responding to a New Media & Society (NM&S) revise-and-resubmit decision — building a point-by-point response letter to multiple interdisciplinary reviewers plus the…

  • Works in 4 steps: Opening note to the editor. Thank them,… → Point-by-point, verbatim. Quote each… → For each point: state what you changed,… → …
  • Tasks that involve Peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Response-letter structure, Reconciling conflicting… and What strengthens an NM&S…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Newms Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to a New Media & Society (NM&S) revise-and-resubmit decision — building a point-by-point response letter to multiple interdisciplinary reviewers plus the editor. Structures the response; it does not fabricate new results.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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

  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/newms-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Opening note to the editor. Thank them, summarize the 3-4 biggest changes, and state how the
  2. Point-by-point, verbatim. Quote each reviewer comment, then respond directly beneath it. Number
  3. For each point: state what you changed, quote the new manuscript text, and give the page/line.
  4. A reconciliation paragraph where reviewers conflict (see below).

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

Newms Rebuttal loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 64 tokens; SKILL.md has 468 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~64
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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). 468 words, ~1,181 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/newms-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
newms-rebuttal
description
Use when responding to a New Media & Society (NM&S) revise-and-resubmit decision — building a point-by-point response letter to multiple interdisciplinary reviewers plus the editor. Structures the response; it does not fabricate new results.

Rebuttal & R&R Strategy (newms-rebuttal)

A major revision at NM&S is an invitation, not a rejection — but it must be earned with a disciplined, point-by-point response to an interdisciplinary set of reviewers whose objections often pull in different directions. The letter is as important as the revision: it shows the editor you took every reviewer seriously and resolved (or reasonably contested) each point.

When to trigger

  • You received a major/minor revision (or a reject-with-encouragement) decision
  • You need to structure the response letter and the revision plan
  • Reviewers disagree with each other and you must reconcile their demands

Response-letter structure

  1. Opening note to the editor. Thank them, summarize the 3-4 biggest changes, and state how the paper improved. Editors triage by this summary.
  2. Point-by-point, verbatim. Quote each reviewer comment, then respond directly beneath it. Number them (R1.1, R1.2…). Never skip a point, even a small one.
  3. For each point: state what you changed, quote the new manuscript text, and give the page/line. If you disagree, say so respectfully with evidence — do not silently ignore.
  4. A reconciliation paragraph where reviewers conflict (see below).

Reconciling conflicting interdisciplinary reviewers (NM&S-specific)

This is the signature NM&S rebuttal challenge — a computational reviewer wants more data; a critical reviewer wants more theory; a qualitative reviewer wants more reflexivity. Tactics:

ConflictMove
Generality vs. depthreframe the claim as a scoped mechanism (not a population estimate) so both are satisfied
More method vs. more theoryadd a compact validation/robustness note and sharpen the concept
Two incompatible demandschoose, justify to the editor, and explain why the alternative would weaken the contribution

Make the editor your ally: where reviewers genuinely conflict, surface it explicitly and ask the editor to adjudicate rather than trying to please both at the cost of coherence.

Show full SKILL.md (173 more words)Show less

What strengthens an NM&S rebuttal

  • New evidence where it's cheap and decisive — a validation table, a negative-case analysis, an added robustness sweep — rather than promises.
  • Concept sharpening in response to "atheoretical" or "platform report" comments.
  • Ethics clarifications (consent, anonymization, ToS) if a reviewer flagged data handling.
  • Honest scope limits added to the discussion in response to over-generalization worries.

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

R2.3 (computational reviewer): "N=30 interviews can't support a general claim."
Response: "We agree and have reframed the contribution as a *mechanism with scope conditions*
  (pp. 4, 18), not a population estimate, and added a negative-case analysis (Table 3) showing where
  datafied control does not operate. We also note the qualitative design's purpose is mechanism
  identification, not prevalence (p. 9)."
Editor note: flags that R2 and R1 (critical) pull opposite ways; explains the scoped-mechanism reframe
  resolves both.

Calibration anchors

  • Answer every point, quote every change. Silence on a comment reads as evasion to the editor.
  • Reconcile, don't appease. When reviewers conflict, pick the coherent path and justify it to the editor.
  • Reframe to a scoped mechanism to defuse the recurring "small-N, how general?" objection.

Anti-patterns

  • A defensive or dismissive tone toward any reviewer
  • Skipping "minor" comments or answering selectively
  • Claiming a change without quoting the new text or giving a location
  • Trying to satisfy two incompatible reviewers and producing an incoherent paper
  • Adding scope-creep results that invite a new round of objections

Output format

【Decision】major / minor / reject-with-encouragement
【Big changes】the 3-4 headline improvements for the editor's summary
【Per-point plan】R1.x / R2.x … each with change + manuscript location
【Conflicts】where reviewers disagree and how reconciled (with editor note)
【Next】newms-submission (re-upload the revision + response letter)

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 New-Media-and-Society-Skills/skills/newms-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Newms Rebuttal

What does Newms Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when responding to a New Media & Society (NM&S) revise-and-resubmit decision — building a point-by-point response letter to multiple interdisciplinary reviewers plus the…. Newms Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to a New Media & Society (NM&S) revise-and-resubmit decision — building a point-by-point response letter to multiple interdisciplinary reviewers plus the editor.

When should I use Newms Rebuttal?

Newms Rebuttal fits situations like: tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Newms Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Newms Rebuttal in Codex?

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

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

What does Newms Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Newms 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 Newms 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 Newms Rebuttal use?

Newms 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 Newms Rebuttal use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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 Newms Rebuttal?

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Who maintains Newms 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.