Agent skill

Recsys Author Response

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

A skill your agent uses when drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window, covering the short narrative RecSys allows, anonymity, anchoring answers to submitted evidence and the…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Recsys Author Response

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window, covering the short narrative RecSys allows, anonymity, anchoring answers to submitted evidence and the…

  • Works in 4 steps: State the decision-critical correction… → Point to the exact submitted evidence… → Explain the recommendation consequence —… → …
  • Drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window
  • SKILL.md covers Triage, Drafting pattern, Recommender-reviewer pushback… and Response micro-example, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Recsys Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window, covering the short narrative RecSys allows, anonymity, anchoring answers to submitted evidence and the anonymous repository, the recurring objections about untuned baselines, leakage, and offline-online gaps, and Senior-PC-focused clarification.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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. 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

  • Drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window
  • Covering the short narrative RecSys allows
  • Anchoring answers to submitted evidence and the anonymous repository
  • The recurring objections about untuned baselines

Example prompts

  • “/recsys-author-response”

Workflow steps

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

  1. State the decision-critical correction or concession in the first line.
  2. Point to the exact submitted evidence (table, figure, appendix section, repository path).
  3. Explain the recommendation consequence — what it means for the ranking claim or deployment.
  4. Promise a camera-ready wording fix only where it adds no unsupported new claim.

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

Recsys Author Response loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 477 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~86
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

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). 477 words, ~1,032 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/recsys-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
recsys-author-response
description
Use when drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window, covering the short narrative RecSys allows, anonymity, anchoring answers to submitted evidence and the anonymous repository, the recurring objections about untuned baselines, leakage, and offline-online gaps, and Senior-PC-focused clarification.

RecSys Author Response

Use this after RecSys reviews are released and the rebuttal window opens. RecSys runs a brief author-response phase (2026: June 4-9) in which authors add a short narrative to clarify misconceptions. Reopen the current instructions before drafting — the length and mechanics are cycle-specific and the phase is short.

Triage

  • Answer concerns that move the decision: correctness, recommendation novelty, evaluation validity, reproducibility, and fit.
  • Use already-submitted evidence — paper sections, tables, ablations, the appendix, and the anonymous repository. The rebuttal clarifies; it does not add a new experiment the reviewers cannot see.
  • Keep the reply anonymous: no institution, platform, deployed-system name, or repository owner.
  • Correct factual misreadings first, then address requested comparisons, tuning details, or uncertainty that the paper already supports.
  • Do not paste new result tables the reviewers had no chance to vet; point to what exists.

Drafting pattern

  1. State the decision-critical correction or concession in the first line.
  2. Point to the exact submitted evidence (table, figure, appendix section, repository path).
  3. Explain the recommendation consequence — what it means for the ranking claim or deployment.
  4. Promise a camera-ready wording fix only where it adds no unsupported new claim.

Recommender-reviewer pushback patterns

PushbackWhat it signalsRecSys-ready fix
"Were the baselines tuned as hard as your method?"The reviewer read the 2019 reproducibility literaturePoint to the equal-budget tuning grid in the appendix and the per-baseline selected settings; never wave it off as "standard config"
"This is a random split on sequential data"Suspected temporal leakageConfirm the temporal/leave-one-last protocol and where it is stated, or concede and scope the claim
"Offline nDCG gains may not deploy"The offline-online gap objectionAnchor to the off-policy estimate, the simulator, or an A/B result; if you have none, scope the claim to offline
"Metrics look sampled, not full-ranking"Sampled-metric distortion suspectedState whether ranking is over the full item set and the cutoff, or report the full-ranking number
"Missing the obvious matrix-factorization baseline"A weak-comparison gapAnchor to the appendix comparison, or concede a camera-ready addition
Show full SKILL.md (139 more words)Show less

Response micro-example

Reviewer objection: the Recall@20 gain probably vanishes against a properly tuned baseline. Reply skeleton:

  1. Concede the concern is the right one to raise.
  2. Point to Appendix C, where every baseline is tuned on the same grid with the same budget, and the selected hyperparameters are listed.
  3. Note the gain persists after tuning (Table 1) and the ablation (Table 2) isolates the mechanism.
  4. Offer one camera-ready sentence making the equal-budget protocol explicit in the main text.

Rebuttal calibration

  • One decision-critical point per reviewer beats an exhaustive line-by-line reply; the Senior PC reads for whether the central evaluation objection was actually resolved.
  • Reply early — RecSys rebuttal windows are short and a precise early narrative outweighs a late comprehensive one.
  • Length and formatting norms vary by cycle; recheck the current author-response instructions before sending.

Output format

text
[Priority issue] <reviewer concern>
[Decision dimension] correctness / novelty / evaluation validity / reproducibility / fit
[Draft response] <RecSys-ready anonymous narrative>
[Evidence anchor] <table / figure / appendix / repository path>
[Forbidden content removed] <identity leaks, unseen new results, unsupported claims>

© 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 RecSys-Skills/skills/recsys-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Recsys Author Response

What does Recsys Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window, covering the short narrative RecSys allows, anonymity, anchoring answers to submitted evidence and the…. Recsys Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window, covering the short narrative RecSys allows, anonymity, anchoring answers to submitted evidence and the anonymous repository, the recurring objections about untuned baselines, leakage, and offline-online gaps, and Senior-PC-focused clarification.

When should I use Recsys Author Response?

Recsys Author Response fits situations like: drafting an ACM RecSys rebuttal during the author-response window; covering the short narrative RecSys allows; anchoring answers to submitted evidence and the anonymous repository; the recurring objections about untuned baselines.

How do I install Recsys Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Recsys Author Response in Codex?

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

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

What does Recsys Author Response need to run?

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

Does Recsys 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 Recsys 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 Recsys Author Response use?

Recsys 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 Recsys Author Response use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Recsys 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.