Agent skill

Sigmetrics Author Response

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

A skill your agent uses when responding to ACM SIGMETRICS reviews, covering any initial rebuttal and — distinctively — the one-shot revision response letter that must map every item on the…

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Install Sigmetrics Author Response

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sigmetrics-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/SIGMETRICS-Skills/skills/sigmetrics-author-response .claude/skills/sigmetrics-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
sigmetrics-author-response
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
507 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 ACM SIGMETRICS reviews, covering any initial rebuttal and — distinctively — the one-shot revision response letter that must map every item on the…

  • Responding to ACM SIGMETRICS reviews
  • SKILL.md covers Triage, The one-shot revision response…, Choosing the resubmission… and Reviewer pushback patterns, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Resubmitted to a subsequent rolling deadline and re-reviewed once by the original reviewers under double-anonymity

What it does

Sigmetrics Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to ACM SIGMETRICS reviews, covering any initial rebuttal and — distinctively — the one-shot revision response letter that must map every item on the reviewers' required-changes list to a concrete change in the revised POMACS paper, resubmitted to a subsequent rolling deadline and re-reviewed once by the original reviewers under double-anonymity.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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

  • Responding to ACM SIGMETRICS reviews
  • Resubmitted to a subsequent rolling deadline and re-reviewed once by the original reviewers under double-anonymity

Example prompts

  • “/sigmetrics-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

Sigmetrics Author Response loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 507 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 507 words, ~1,329 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sigmetrics-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sigmetrics-author-response
description
Use when responding to ACM SIGMETRICS reviews, covering any initial rebuttal and — distinctively — the one-shot revision response letter that must map every item on the reviewers' required-changes list to a concrete change in the revised POMACS paper, resubmitted to a subsequent rolling deadline and re-reviewed once by the original reviewers under double-anonymity.

SIGMETRICS Author Response

Use this after SIGMETRICS reviews are released. The defining SIGMETRICS response is the one-shot revision letter: if you receive a One-Shot Revision decision, you get exactly one chance to resubmit a revised paper (to one of the next two rolling deadlines) accompanied by a letter that closes the reviewers' explicit list of required changes. Any initial-round rebuttal is secondary; the revision letter is where the paper is won.

Triage

  • Answer what affects the decision: model rigor, proof correctness, assumption validity, the soundness and fairness of empirical/simulation evidence, novelty, and reproducibility.
  • Use evidence that already exists or that the revision will concretely add — a completed proof case, a new simulation, a validated assumption — never a vague promise.
  • Correct factual misreadings first; a reviewer who misread a lemma or a plot is often persuadable.
  • Preserve double-anonymity in any letter that circulates before decision (the Operational Systems Track excepted).

The one-shot revision response letter (the distinctive SIGMETRICS move)

A One-Shot Revision is single-shot: there is no second revision, so the letter must demonstrate that every item on the required-changes list is resolved. It is a change ledger:

text
[R1.1] Required change (quoted briefly): "prove the bound holds for the heavy-tailed case"
       -> Action: DONE  | added Thm. 1 case (b) and its proof in §3.2 (App. B for the full derivation)
       -> Where: §3.2, Appendix B; simulator run in artifact/sim/heavy_tail.ipynb validates it
[R2.1] Required change: "validate the M/G/1 assumption against a real workload"
       -> Action: DONE  | added §5.1 fitting the service-time distribution to the trace; QQ-plot Fig. 6
[R2.2] Required change: "compare against the size-aware optimal, not only the default"
       -> Action: DONE  | added the SRPT-style baseline, tuned with an equal budget (Table 2)
[R3.1] Required change: "discuss estimation error in fetch size"
       -> Action: DONE  | §6 quantifies degradation under estimation error and bounds it

The rule that turns a One-Shot Revision into an acceptance: close the whole list. Because the revision is re-reviewed once against that list, an item neither done nor explicitly and convincingly justified as infeasible is what the single shot punishes.

Choosing the resubmission deadline

  • You may target one of the two subsequent deadlines — pick the later one if closing the list needs a real proof or a new measurement campaign; do not rush a single-shot revision into the nearer deadline and leave an item half-done.
  • Keep the paper under the SIGMETRICS process while revising: submitting the same work elsewhere before withdrawing is a simultaneous-submission violation.
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Reviewer pushback patterns

PushbackWhat it signalsSIGMETRICS-ready response
"The proof omits a case / an assumption is unstated"Rigor/correctness doubtAdd the case or state the assumption explicitly; give the full derivation in an appendix
"The model assumption is unrealistic"Construct validity of the modelFit the assumption to a real workload/trace; quantify the gap and bound its effect
"The baseline is not the right/optimal one"Fairness of the comparisonAdd the strongest baseline (e.g. size-aware optimal), tuned with an equal, documented budget
"Simulation and analysis are not shown to agree"Validation gapOverlay the analytic curve on simulated measurements with confidence intervals
"Not reproducible"Open-science gapShip the seeded simulator, trace-processing scripts, and analysis notebooks

Anonymity in the letter (easy to slip)

  • Refer to your own prior work in the third person, as in the paper.
  • Describe artifact changes without linking to an identity-revealing repository; use the anonymized location.
  • Do not thank a named collaborator or funder inside a letter that circulates before decision.

Calibration

  • Respond to the criterion the reviewer actually raised, not the one you would rather defend.
  • The revision, not the letter, carries the argument — the letter maps the list; the paper proves the point.
  • Length/format norms for the letter vary by cycle; confirm the current instructions before sending.

Output format

text
[Turn] initial rebuttal / one-shot revision response letter
[Resubmission deadline] which subsequent rolling deadline, and why
[Priority issue] <reviewer required change>
[Decision dimension] rigor / proof / assumption validity / evidence / novelty / reproducibility
[Change ledger] <required change -> DONE/JUSTIFIED-INFEASIBLE + where in paper/appendix/artifact>
[List-closure check] every required change resolved? yes/no
[Anonymity check] <no identity leak in the letter: passed/issues>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sigmetrics Author Response

What does Sigmetrics Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when responding to ACM SIGMETRICS reviews, covering any initial rebuttal and — distinctively — the one-shot revision response letter that must map every item on the…. Sigmetrics Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to ACM SIGMETRICS reviews, covering any initial rebuttal and — distinctively — the one-shot revision response letter that must map every item on the reviewers' required-changes list to a concrete change in the revised POMACS paper, resubmitted to a subsequent rolling deadline and re-reviewed once by the original reviewers under double-anonymity.

When should I use Sigmetrics Author Response?

Sigmetrics Author Response fits situations like: responding to ACM SIGMETRICS reviews; resubmitted to a subsequent rolling deadline and re-reviewed once by the original reviewers under double-anonymity.

How do I install Sigmetrics Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sigmetrics Author Response in Codex?

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

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

What does Sigmetrics Author Response need to run?

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

Does Sigmetrics 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 Sigmetrics 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 Sigmetrics Author Response use?

Sigmetrics 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 Sigmetrics Author Response use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Sigmetrics Author Response?

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Who maintains Sigmetrics 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.