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Osdi Author Response

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

A skill your agent uses when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the…

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Install Osdi Author Response

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills osdi-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/OSDI-Skills/skills/osdi-author-response .claude/skills/osdi-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
osdi-author-response
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
846 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the…

  • Works in 3 steps: the rebuttal you write in advance → shepherding is the author response → if a future cycle reinstates a response
  • Handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission
  • SKILL.md covers Phase 1: the rebuttal you…, Phase 2: shepherding is the…, The shepherding calendar (2026… and Phase 3: if a future cycle…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Osdi Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the conditional-accept shepherd exchange as the real author response, with a protocol for mandated revisions and for cycles that reinstate a response phase.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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

  • Handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission
  • Then treating the conditional-accept shepherd exchange as the real author response
  • With a protocol for mandated revisions and for cycles that reinstate a response phase

Example prompts

  • “/osdi-author-response”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. the rebuttal you write in advance
  2. shepherding is the author response
  3. if a future cycle reinstates a 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

Osdi Author Response loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 846 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 846 words, ~1,701 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/osdi-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
osdi-author-response
description
Use when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the conditional-accept shepherd exchange as the real author response, with a protocol for mandated revisions and for cycles that reinstate a response phase.

OSDI Author Response

At most venues this skill would draft a rebuttal. At OSDI '26 there was no author-response period (verified 2026-07-08) — a deliberate removal, since earlier OSDI cycles had one. The author's voice therefore appears at exactly two points: before submission, inside the paper, and after a conditional accept, in the shepherding exchange. This skill covers both, plus the fallback if a future cycle reinstates a response phase (待核实 each year — check the current CFP's process section first, always).

Phase 1: the rebuttal you write in advance

Since no clarification channel will exist between December and March, run a pre-mortem rebuttal on the draft two to three weeks before the deadline:

  1. Convene readers who did not build the system; have them write the three most damaging reviewer objections, in review language.
  2. For each objection, classify: misreading (the text permits a wrong interpretation), gap (the evidence genuinely lacks it), or disagreement (a judgment call about scope or trade-offs).
  3. Fix each in the only medium available — the paper: misreadings get rewritten prose; gaps get the experiment or an explicit, reasoned limitation statement; disagreements get their justification moved from your head into Section 2's why-alternatives-fail paragraph (osdi-writing-style).

The test of the fix: a sympathetic PC member should be able to answer the objection in discussion by quoting your paper. You will not be in the room; your text is.

Phase 2: shepherding is the author response

A conditional accept arrives with a PC-mandated change list and a shepherd who must approve the final paper by June 9 — otherwise the paper is rejected from the program. This is a response process with enforcement, and it rewards the same discipline a rebuttal would:

Rebuttal instinctShepherding translation
Answer every pointBuild a change matrix: mandate → action → paper location → status
Be concise and factualShort status notes to the shepherd; diffs and section pointers over essays
Don't relitigate scoresDon't relitigate the reviews — the decision is made; only the changes matter
New results need careMandated experiments get full osdi-experiments rigor on the frozen testbed
Deadline disciplineFront-load: first full revision to the shepherd weeks before June 9, not on it
text
change-matrix.md (shared with coauthors; mirrored in notes to the shepherd)
M1 "compare against X under skewed load"  -> new fig 9      -> §5.3 -> DONE
M2 "state the consistency model precisely"-> new §3.1 defs  -> §3.1 -> DRAFT
M3 "temper claims about portability"      -> rewrote claims -> §1,§7 -> DONE
open question -> shepherd (2026-04-14): does M1 require both skew levels?

Two rules of tone: the shepherd is the paper's ally and its gate simultaneously — give them evidence to approve, never pressure to concede; and where a mandate seems infeasible (hardware gone, trace unlicensable), raise it immediately with an alternative, not in June with an apology.

The shepherding calendar (2026 spacing)

The '26 cycle allowed roughly ten weeks from notification (March 26) to the final paper (June 9), and the artifact deadline (May 8) lands in the middle of it. A workable split for a conditional accept:

  • Week 1 — decode the mandate list with all coauthors; send the shepherd a scoped restatement of each mandate and get written confirmation of the interpretation.
  • Weeks 2–5 — mandated experiments on the frozen testbed; writing fixes in parallel; artifact packaging proceeds concurrently against the May deadline (osdi-artifact-evaluation) — the same person cannot do both in the same week, so split ownership explicitly.
  • Week 6 — full revised draft to the shepherd, change matrix attached; ask what is still short of approval rather than assuming silence means yes.
  • Weeks 7–9 — iterate; fold in the artifact appendix if the badge landed.
  • Week 10 — buffer. If the plan needs week 10 for content, it has already failed; week 10 absorbs compile problems and sign-off latency only.
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Phase 3: if a future cycle reinstates a response

OSDI has had responses before and could again. If the current CFP announces one, apply the compressed classic form — and OSDI-specific emphases:

  • Lead with the one clarification that changes a score, stated as fact-plus-pointer ("§4.2 already reports this; the number is 11%").
  • Systems reviewers respect measurements over promises: if the window allows a small clarifying run on the frozen testbed, one number beats three paragraphs.
  • Never claim results the PDF does not contain unless the cycle's rules explicitly permit new data — and say so if they do.
  • Stay anonymous; response text is part of the double-blind record.

When a mandate demands new experiments

Mandated runs are the highest-risk shepherding item because they can fail:

  • Reproduce one submission-era result on the testbed first, to prove the frozen environment still matches the paper before adding anything new.
  • Scope the run with the shepherd in numbers (which baseline, which scale points, which metric) before burning cluster weeks on an interpretation.
  • If the new result weakens a claim, the move is to temper the claim in the final paper and tell the shepherd directly — shepherds exist precisely to certify that the published version is honest, and discovering the weakening later is worse for everyone.

Failure modes

  • Spending the silent window composing imaginary rebuttals instead of preparing the artifact and testbed for the two channels that do exist.
  • Treating the shepherd's mandate list as an opening bid to negotiate down.
  • Making mandated changes only in a letter, not in the paper — approval attaches to the June PDF.
  • Assuming next cycle's process from this cycle's: the response's existence, format, and rules are annual variables at OSDI.

Output format

text
[Cycle process] response period this year? none / exists (source: current CFP; else 待核实)
[Phase] pre-submission pre-mortem / shepherding / reinstated-response
[If pre-mortem] top objections + class (misreading/gap/disagreement) + in-text fix
[If shepherding] change matrix status <done/total>; open questions to shepherd; June risk
[Tone check] anything that relitigates instead of resolves? <flag it>

© 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 OSDI-Skills/skills/osdi-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Osdi Author Response

What does Osdi Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the…. Osdi Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the conditional-accept shepherd exchange as the real author response, with a protocol for mandated revisions and for cycles that reinstate a response phase.

When should I use Osdi Author Response?

Osdi Author Response fits situations like: handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission; then treating the conditional-accept shepherd exchange as the real author response; with a protocol for mandated revisions and for cycles that reinstate a response phase.

How do I install Osdi Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Osdi Author Response in Codex?

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

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

What does Osdi Author Response need to run?

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

Does Osdi 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 Osdi 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 Osdi Author Response use?

Osdi 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 Osdi Author Response use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k 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 Osdi Author Response?

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Who maintains Osdi 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.