Scientific Writer
gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills
A skill your agent uses when the user has a scientific draft (with its dataset, figures, and optional analysis code) and wants it iteratively revised until it clears a quality bar.
A skill your agent uses when responding to a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) decision letter — drafting the point-by-point response and revision plan for properties, simulations, the empirical…
Install Smr Rebuttal
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-rebuttal -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-rebuttal --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal .claude/skills/smr-rebuttal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "smr-rebuttal" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal into .claude/skills/smr-rebuttal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-rebuttal", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttalType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-rebuttal -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-rebuttal --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal .agents/skills/smr-rebuttal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "smr-rebuttal" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal into .agents/skills/smr-rebuttal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-rebuttal", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-rebuttal -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-rebuttal --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal .cursor/skills/smr-rebuttal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "smr-rebuttal" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal into .cursor/skills/smr-rebuttal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-rebuttal", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-rebuttal -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-rebuttal --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal .gemini/skills/smr-rebuttal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "smr-rebuttal" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal into .gemini/skills/smr-rebuttal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-rebuttal", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-rebuttalInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-rebuttal -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal .github/skills/smr-rebuttal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "smr-rebuttal" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal into .github/skills/smr-rebuttal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-rebuttal", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-rebuttal -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-rebuttal --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal .opencode/skills/smr-rebuttal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "smr-rebuttal" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal into .opencode/skills/smr-rebuttal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-rebuttal", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
smr-rebuttal- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 511 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 Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) decision letter — drafting the point-by-point response and revision plan for properties, simulations, the empirical…
- The empirical illustration
- SKILL.md covers SMR's response format, Classify each comment, then…, Handling the hard cases and Track the revision clock, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Exposition under SMRs verbatim-comment response format
What it does
Smr Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) decision letter — drafting the point-by-point response and revision plan for properties, simulations, the empirical illustration, software, and exposition under SMR's verbatim-comment response format. Plans the response; does not run new analyses itself.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Structured output and tool calling and 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
- The empirical illustration
- Exposition under SMRs verbatim-comment response format
Example prompts
- “/smr-rebuttal”
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
Smr Rebuttal loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 511 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 511 words, ~1,156 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/smr-rebuttal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- smr-rebuttal
- description
- Use when responding to a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) decision letter — drafting the point-by-point response and revision plan for properties, simulations, the empirical illustration, software, and exposition under SMR's verbatim-comment response format. Plans the response; does not run new analyses itself.
SMR Rebuttal
Use this after a decision letter. SMR revisions are won by treating each reviewer point as a concrete, auditable deliverable — at a methods journal, "we have clarified this" without a new derivation, simulation cell, or exhibit rarely persuades.
SMR's response format
SMR expects authors to copy each reviewer comment verbatim and respond beneath it (检索于 2026-06； 以官网为准). Build the response document accordingly:
- One block per comment: the verbatim comment, your response, and the exact change (section, table, equation, or line) that implements it.
- Group nothing silently — every comment gets its own visible block, even if the answer is "see our response to Reviewer 2, point 3."
- Keep a changelog at the top summarizing the major revisions so the editor sees the arc quickly.
Classify each comment, then assign a deliverable
| Comment type | Deliverable that satisfies an SMR reviewer |
|---|---|
| "Property is asserted, not proved" | a derivation or a clearly labeled argument (smr-derivation-and-properties) |
| "Simulation is too narrow / strawman" | new DGP cells or competitors (smr-simulation-studies) |
| "Does the method matter in practice?" | strengthen or add the empirical illustration (smr-empirical-illustration) |
| "Can I run this?" | release/clean the package + reproducibility (smr-software-and-reproducibility) |
| "Unclear contribution / overclaim" | tighten the contribution sentence (smr-method-contribution, smr-writing-style) |
| "Already exists elsewhere" | a precedent response (smr-literature-positioning) — concede or differentiate |
Map every comment to one of these before writing; an answer with no concrete deliverable is the response most likely to draw a second-round rejection.
Handling the hard cases
- Disagreement: you may push back, but do it with evidence — a derivation, a simulation cell, or a citation — not assertion. Concede the framing even when you keep the conclusion.
- A demanded analysis you think is wrong: run it anyway and show why it does not change the conclusion; a refusal reads as evasion.
- Precedent claims: if the reviewer is right that the method exists, say so and re-scope the contribution honestly; if they are wrong, give the precise difference from the cited work.
- Scope pushback ("this is an application"): re-foreground the methodological takeaway and the
travel beyond the example — the
smr-topic-selectionargument.
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Track the revision clock
- Note the deadline and whether it is a major or minor revision; request an extension early if a new simulation or derivation needs real time.
- Keep the revised manuscript fully anonymized for re-review and update the availability statement and AI disclosure if materials changed.
Checklist
- Each reviewer comment appears verbatim with a response and the exact change beneath it.
- A top-of-document changelog summarizes the major revisions.
- Every comment is mapped to a concrete deliverable (derivation/sim cell/illustration/code/prose).
- Demanded analyses were run, even those expected to be null.
- Disagreements are backed by evidence, with framing conceded where fair.
- Precedent claims are conceded or differentiated precisely.
- The revised files remain anonymized; availability statement and AI disclosure updated.
Anti-patterns
- "We have clarified this" with no new derivation, exhibit, or text pointer.
- Silent grouping of comments instead of the verbatim-block format.
- Assertion over evidence in disagreements.
- Refusing a requested analysis instead of running it and explaining the null.
- Defending an overclaim the reviewers correctly flagged, rather than re-scoping.
- Deanonymized revision files sent for re-review.
Output format
[Decision] reject / major / minor / conditional accept
[Response format] verbatim-block per comment? yes/no
[Comment ledger] <comment -> deliverable -> where implemented>
[Hardest point] <the comment most likely to sink the revision> + plan
[Anonymization/disclosure] revision anonymized; availability + AI updated? yes/no
[Next SMR skill] smr-submission (for the revised resubmission)© 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 Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Scholar Evaluationspacering-net/codeg | 3.9k | 11 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Smr Rebuttal
What does Smr Rebuttal do?
A skill your agent uses when responding to a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) decision letter — drafting the point-by-point response and revision plan for properties, simulations, the empirical…. Smr Rebuttal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when responding to a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) decision letter — drafting the point-by-point response and revision plan for properties, simulations, the empirical illustration, software, and exposition under SMR's verbatim-comment response format.
When should I use Smr Rebuttal?
Smr Rebuttal fits situations like: the empirical illustration; exposition under SMRs verbatim-comment response format.
How do I install Smr Rebuttal in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-rebuttal -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/smr-rebuttal in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Smr Rebuttal in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-rebuttal -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-rebuttal in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/smr-rebuttal in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Smr 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 smr-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/smr-rebuttal, .gemini/skills/smr-rebuttal, .github/skills/smr-rebuttal and .opencode/skills/smr-rebuttal in your project.
What does Smr Rebuttal need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Smr Rebuttal is instructions for the agent only.
Does Smr 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 Smr 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 Smr Rebuttal use?
Smr 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 Smr Rebuttal use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 Smr Rebuttal?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Smr Rebuttal: Scientific Writer (gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills, 174 stars), Smiles De Salter (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 1.9k stars), Video Description Oversight (calesthio/generative-media-skills, 197 stars) and Peer Review (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Smr 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.