Structure responses to referee reports for R&R submissions. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Referee Response

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill referee-response -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills referee-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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/30-zirui-song-claude-skills/referee-response .claude/skills/referee-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
referee-response
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
297 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Structure responses to referee reports for R&R submissions. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • Research & Science work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Response Document Structure, Point-by-Point Response Template, Response Strategies by Comment… and Change Tracking Summary, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Referee Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Structure responses to referee reports for R&R submissions

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • Research & Science work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/referee-response”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. 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

Referee Response loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 19 tokens; SKILL.md has 297 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~19
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 297 words (~1,480 tokens).

“Help structure and draft responses to referee reports. Ensures consistent formatting and comprehensive responses.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
referee-response

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/30-zirui-song-claude-skills/referee-response of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Referee Response

What does Referee Response do?

Structure responses to referee reports for R&R submissions. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Referee Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

When should I use Referee Response?

Referee Response fits situations like: research & Science work in your project.

How do I install Referee Response in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill referee-response -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/30-zirui-song-claude-skills/referee-response in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/referee-response in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Referee Response in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill referee-response -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/30-zirui-song-claude-skills/referee-response in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/referee-response in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Referee 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill referee-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/referee-response, .gemini/skills/referee-response, .github/skills/referee-response and .opencode/skills/referee-response in your project.

What does Referee Response need to run?

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

Does Referee 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 Referee 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 Referee Response use?

Referee Response has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Referee Response use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Referee Response?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Referee Response: Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars), Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars) and Content Research Writer (weapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss, 1.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Referee Response?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,542 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.