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Phg Rebuttal

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

A skill your agent uses when responding to a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the editor and referees that…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Phg Rebuttal

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills phg-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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-rebuttal .claude/skills/phg-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
phg-rebuttal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
640 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 Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the editor and referees that…

  • Works in 4 steps: Open with a synthesis. A short note to… → Point-by-point, quote each comment.… → Show, don't assert. For each accepted… → …
  • Tasks that involve Peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build the response, PiHG-specific moves and Response micro-template…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Phg Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the editor and referees that strengthens the review's argument and coverage. Structures the response and revisions; it does not fabricate literature or claims.

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

  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/phg-rebuttal”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Open with a synthesis. A short note to the editor summarizing the main changes and how the revision
  2. Point-by-point, quote each comment. Reproduce each referee/editor comment verbatim, then respond
  3. Show, don't assert. For each accepted point, quote the revised text and give the location
  4. Disagree carefully. Where you decline, give a reasoned rationale and, where possible, a partial

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

Phg Rebuttal loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 640 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
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). 640 words, ~1,550 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/phg-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
phg-rebuttal
description
Use when responding to a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the editor and referees that strengthens the review's argument and coverage. Structures the response and revisions; it does not fabricate literature or claims.

Revision & Rebuttal (phg-rebuttal)

A major revision at PiHG is a scoped invitation, not a rejection. The response letter is read alongside the revised essay by the editor and the referees — usually senior figures in your sub-field. You win by addressing every point, respectfully and concretely, and by strengthening the intervention and the command of the literature, not by patching wording. Because PiHG is a review journal, most fixes are argumentative and bibliographic, not new data.

When to trigger

  • A decision letter arrived: minor revision, major revision (R&R), or reject-with-encouragement
  • Referees disagree, or one challenges the coverage, the attribution, or the novelty of the intervention
  • You need to decide what to concede, what to push back on, and how to show the changes

Build the response

  1. Open with a synthesis. A short note to the editor summarizing the main changes and how the revision strengthens the argument, the intervention, and the coverage.
  2. Point-by-point, quote each comment. Reproduce each referee/editor comment verbatim, then respond directly beneath it. Number them (R1.1, R1.2 …) for cross-reference.
  3. Show, don't assert. For each accepted point, quote the revised text and give the location (section/paragraph); for added literature, name the works and where they now appear.
  4. Disagree carefully. Where you decline, give a reasoned rationale and, where possible, a partial accommodation — never dismiss a referee who is in the field.

PiHG-specific moves

  • "Missed literature" is first-order. If a referee names works you omitted, add and integrate them into the synthesis (not a token citation), and check none change the argument. Correct any attribution error immediately — a misplaced concept or journal loses a reviewer fast.
  • Strengthen the intervention, not just coverage. If a referee called the essay "a summary" or "toothless," the fix is a sharper critical move (phg-critical-intervention) and a clearer organizing concept (phg-theory-building) — more citations alone will not answer it.
  • Reconcile divergent referees on their own terms. A political-economy referee and a post-structural referee may pull in opposite directions; name the tension for the editor and show how the revision serves both, rather than silently satisfying one.
  • Widen reach where flagged. If coverage was called parochial, engage Global-South / non-Anglophone work where it exists, and name the honest limit where it does not.
  • Honor the short cap on the way back. Revisions add words; re-check the ~8,000-word inclusive cap and cut walk-throughs or move detail to endnotes sparingly (they count too).
Show full SKILL.md (243 more words)Show less

Response micro-template (illustrative)

R2.2 (verbatim): "This reads as a competent survey but I finished it unsure what the field is supposed to
  do differently."
Response: We agree the intervention was under-stated. We have (a) recast Section 4 around a single
  claim — that treating the platform as a bounded object hides the relational circuit — and (b) added a
  forward agenda (Section 5) with three concept-driven questions for economic, feminist, and urban
  geographers. Revised text: "Following the circuit rather than the platform, research should now ask…"
  (§5, ¶1). We also integrated the three works the reviewer noted (added at §3.2) into the synthesis.

This concedes the point, shows the structural fix and its location, and integrates the missed works — the move editors reward over "we have strengthened the argument."

Decision triage (how hard to fight)

Referee askPosture
Missed / misattributed literatureConcede and integrate; it is first-order at this venue
"Add an empirical study / data"Push back on genre — PiHG publishes reviews, not empirical work
"The intervention is thin"Concede; sharpen the critical move and concept, not just citations
Divergent-tradition referees clashReconcile; name the tension for the editor
Out-of-scope demand (a different essay)Decline with rationale; offer a scoped accommodation

Checklist

  • Every comment quoted and answered (numbered, point-by-point)
  • Revised text quoted with locations; added literature named and integrated
  • Attribution errors corrected; missed works woven into the synthesis, not tokenized
  • Intervention and organizing concept strengthened where "summary/toothless" was the charge
  • Divergent referees each addressed on their own terms; tensions named for the editor
  • Re-checked against the ~8,000-word inclusive cap and SAGE Harvard style

Anti-patterns

  • "We have addressed this" with no shown change
  • Answering "missed literature" with a token citation, not integration
  • Answering "thin intervention" with more coverage instead of a sharper argument
  • Being talked into adding empirical data to a review essay
  • Dismissing or arguing combatively with a referee who is in the field
  • Blowing past the short cap while adding requested material

Output format

【Decision】minor / major (R&R) / reject-with-encouragement
【Editor synthesis】2–3 lines on the main changes
【Point-by-point】each comment quoted + response + revised-text location
【Coverage fixes】missed works integrated + attributions corrected
【Intervention strengthened】sharper critical move / clearer concept
【Cap re-check】within ~8,000 inclusive after revisions? [Y/N]
【Next】resubmit via SAGE Track (phg-submission for final preflight)

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 Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Phg Rebuttal

What does Phg Rebuttal do?

A skill your agent uses when responding to a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the editor and referees that…. Phg Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the editor and referees that strengthens the review's argument and coverage.

When should I use Phg Rebuttal?

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

How do I install Phg Rebuttal in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Phg Rebuttal in Codex?

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

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

What does Phg Rebuttal need to run?

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

Does Phg 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 Phg 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 Phg Rebuttal use?

Phg 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 Phg Rebuttal use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k 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 Phg Rebuttal?

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Who maintains Phg 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.