A skill your agent uses when reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines, missing significance tests, collection…

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Install Sigir Author Response

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sigir-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/SIGIR-Skills/skills/sigir-author-response .claude/skills/sigir-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
sigir-author-response
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
865 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines, missing significance tests, collection…

  • Reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines
  • SKILL.md covers Situation 1: the cycle offers…, Situation 2: no response window, Situation 3: after rejection and Drafting discipline, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Missing significance tests

What it does

Sigir Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines, missing significance tests, collection choice), writing within whatever response mechanism the current SIGIR cycle actually offers, and planning the resubmission path if the answer is no.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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

  • Reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines
  • Missing significance tests
  • Collection choice)
  • Writing within whatever response mechanism the current SIGIR cycle actually offers

Example prompts

  • “/sigir-author-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

Sigir Author Response loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 865 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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). 865 words, ~1,750 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sigir-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sigir-author-response
description
Use when reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines, missing significance tests, collection choice), writing within whatever response mechanism the current SIGIR cycle actually offers, and planning the resubmission path if the answer is no.

SIGIR Author Response

First establish what response channel exists this cycle. SIGIR does not have a famous institutionalized rebuttal ritual the way ICLR or KDD do, and whether a given edition runs an author-response or discussion phase for full/short papers was not verifiable for 2026 (待核实 — check the track page and the OpenReview timeline of your own submission). This skill therefore covers three situations: a real response window, no window at all, and the post-rejection letter.

Situation 1: the cycle offers a response window

Treat it as a precision instrument, not a second paper. SIGIR reviewers are IR methodologists; the objections cluster predictably, and each cluster has a strongest honest answer:

Objection clusterWeak replyStrong reply
"Baselines are outdated / not tuned""We will add X"Name the tuning protocol already in the paper (grid, budget, dev split) and cite the table row proving parity of effort
"No significance testing""Differences are large"Report the paired test you ran (test, correction, p or CI) with exact table coordinates; if you truly didn't run one, concede and state what you will report
"Only one collection""Others are future work"Explain the claim's scope: which property of the collection the claim depends on, and why generalization is or is not asserted
"Metric choice hides the effect"Defend the metric abstractlyShow the effect on the reviewer's preferred metric if it is computable from your runs — run files make this a one-line answer
"This is a known result"Assert noveltyContrast mechanisms against the specific cited paper: what it does, what yours does, what breaks if the delta is removed

Rules of engagement:

  • Answer from the submitted PDF and its cited repository. New experiments are only safe if small, decisive, and clearly labeled as response-phase additions the camera-ready would absorb.
  • Quote coordinates ("Table 3, row 4; §5.2 ¶2"), never re-argue the whole section.
  • Keep each reviewer's reply self-contained; meta-reviewers read per-review.
  • Never break anonymity — no links that reveal a team, no "as we showed at TREC."

Situation 2: no response window

Then the response happens before submission. Write the paper so the predictable objections above are pre-answered: a tuning-protocol paragraph, a significance-testing sentence under every close comparison, an explicit claim-scope sentence for the collection lineup. Budget half a page of the 9 for pre-emption; it is the cheapest acceptance probability you can buy at a venue where you may never get to talk back.

Situation 3: after rejection

  • Reviews are a free experiment-design consult from three IR specialists. Extract the demanded evidence into a checklist before feelings archive the folder.
  • Route options in the SIGIR family and neighbors: the next SIGIR cycle, SIGIR-AP (which has advertised a revise-and-resubmit route accepting a 1-3 page response letter with a revised previously-rejected paper — verify its current CFP), ECIR, CIKM, WSDM, or a TOIS journal version if the work outgrew conference page budgets.
  • If resubmitting to any SIGIR-family venue, keep a diff-log: R2's "missing BEIR evaluation" answered in §5.3 is a sentence in the next cover letter or R&R note.
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Drafting discipline

text
Reply skeleton per reviewer (aim: fits on one screen)
---------------------------------------------------
Thanks + one-line summary of what we changed/clarify.
[W1] <reviewer's words, 1 line>
  -> Answer with coordinates. (Table/§/Fig)
  -> If conceded: what we will do, where it will go.
[W2] ...
Closing: the one thing we most want re-weighed, stated once.

Anti-patterns that reliably backfire with IR reviewers:

  • Arguing that nDCG@10 improvements are "obviously meaningful" without a test — this community invented much of the significance-testing-in-IR literature.
  • Dumping new tables for every complaint: it signals the submission was premature.
  • Answering the meta-question ("is this SIGIR material?") defensively instead of restating the contribution type (ranking model / evaluation method / resource / analysis) and its intended reader.
  • Promising camera-ready changes that exceed what the page budget could ever absorb — reviewers do the arithmetic (appendices count inside the budget at SIGIR).

Tone calibration for a small community

IR is a small field: the reviewer you bruise this cycle chairs your session next year. Calibrate register per line, not per document:

Too hot: "R2 clearly has not read Section 5, where this is addressed." Too cold: "We thank the reviewer for this insightful comment and will carefully consider it in future work." Right: "§5.2 ¶3 reports this experiment (Table 4, rows 2-3); we agree the pointer from §3 was too subtle and will add a forward reference."

The pattern: locate, concede the findability problem even when the content exists, and commit to the small fix. Reserve firm disagreement for factual errors, and spend it at most once per reviewer — a response that disputes everything is read as disputing nothing.

Evidence you can compute during a short window

Because run files exist (if sigir-artifact-evaluation was followed), several reviewer requests are answerable in hours without new training:

  • A different metric or cutoff on existing runs — minutes with ir_measures.
  • A different significance test or correction — minutes on per-topic scores.
  • A per-query breakdown by query length/type — an afternoon.
  • A new baseline or a new collection — not window material; promise it only if the camera-ready budget can honestly absorb the result either way.

Deciding whether to fight or fold

  • Fight when the misunderstanding is factual and the correction has coordinates.
  • Fold (and fix) when two or more reviewers independently hit the same evidence gap — at SIGIR that convergence usually means the gap is real.
  • A borderline paper with one champion is worth a careful, warm, precise response; a paper whose scores agree at reject is worth a better next submission instead.

Output format

text
[Response channel] confirmed window / none this cycle / post-rejection
[Reviewer map] R1: <stance, key ask> | R2: ... | R3: ...
[Triage] answerable-with-coordinates / concede-and-fix / out-of-scope
[New-evidence budget] <what, if anything, gets computed during the window>
[Resubmission route] next SIGIR cycle / SIGIR-AP R&R / ECIR / CIKM / WSDM / TOIS
[One ask] <the single re-weighing request to close with>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in SIGIR-Skills/skills/sigir-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sigir Author Response

What does Sigir Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines, missing significance tests, collection…. Sigir Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines, missing significance tests, collection choice), writing within whatever response mechanism the current SIGIR cycle actually offers, and planning the resubmission path if the answer is no.

When should I use Sigir Author Response?

Sigir Author Response fits situations like: reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines; missing significance tests; collection choice); writing within whatever response mechanism the current SIGIR cycle actually offers.

How do I install Sigir Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sigir Author Response in Codex?

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

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

What does Sigir Author Response need to run?

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

Does Sigir 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 Sigir 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 Sigir Author Response use?

Sigir 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 Sigir Author Response use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 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 Sigir Author Response?

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Who maintains Sigir 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.