A skill your agent uses when drafting a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window, keeping it within the venue's norms — correcting factual errors, answering direct reviewer…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Sosp Author Response

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sosp-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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-author-response .claude/skills/sosp-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
sosp-author-response
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
628 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window, keeping it within the venue's norms — correcting factual errors, answering direct reviewer…

  • Works in 4 steps: Factual error — the review misstates… → Missed content — the answer is in the… → Direct question — answer it crisply from… → …
  • Drafting a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window
  • SKILL.md covers What the response can and…, Hour-zero triage, Budgeting 500 words and Tone calibration for a…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Sosp Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window, keeping it within the venue's norms — correcting factual errors, answering direct reviewer questions, staying near the 500-word guidance, and never introducing new experiments, new data, or promises of future work.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 Business, Finance & HR. 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 a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window
  • Keeping it within the venues norms — correcting factual errors
  • Answering direct reviewer questions
  • Staying near the 500-word guidance

Example prompts

  • “/sosp-author-response”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Factual error — the review misstates what the paper says or does. Highest
  2. Missed content — the answer is in the paper but the reviewer did not find it.
  3. Direct question — answer it crisply from the submitted material.
  4. Judgment call — "not novel enough," "evaluation could be broader." Spend at most

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

Sosp Author Response loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 628 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 628 words, ~1,366 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sosp-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sosp-author-response
description
Use when drafting a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window, keeping it within the venue's norms — correcting factual errors, answering direct reviewer questions, staying near the 500-word guidance, and never introducing new experiments, new data, or promises of future work.

SOSP Author Response

Use this when SOSP reviews land and the response window opens. SOSP's response phase has an unusually narrow charter, stated in the CFP (verified 2026-07-08 for the 2026 cycle): responses exist to correct factual errors in the reviews and to answer questions reviewers explicitly posed. They must not add new experiments or data, describe work done since submission, or promise follow-up work. Submitting a response is optional, and while no hard cap is stated, authors are strongly encouraged to stay under 500 words.

What the response can and cannot do

The response is read by a program committee that will discuss the paper live at a PC meeting. Its job is to remove false obstacles before that discussion, not to renegotiate the paper.

MoveAllowed at SOSP?Why
"Review B states we hold the lock across I/O; §4.2 shows it is released before the write"YesFactual correction, cites the submitted text
Answering "how does this behave when the log fills?" with what the submission already supportsYesDirect reviewer question
"We have since run the benchmark on 128 nodes and..."NoNew data after the deadline
"We will add a comparison against X in the final version"NoPromised work
Re-arguing novelty against a reviewer's taste judgmentTechnically allowed, usually wasted wordsNot a factual error
Pointing to the supplementary document for detail the reviewer missedYes, sparinglyIt was part of the submission

Hour-zero triage

Read all reviews once without drafting anything, then classify every negative point:

  1. Factual error — the review misstates what the paper says or does. Highest priority; these are the response's reason to exist.
  2. Missed content — the answer is in the paper but the reviewer did not find it. Respond with a section/figure pointer and one sentence of restatement.
  3. Direct question — answer it crisply from the submitted material.
  4. Judgment call — "not novel enough," "evaluation could be broader." Spend at most one sentence, or zero; the PC meeting will weigh these, and defensive prose does not move systems reviewers.

If categories 1-3 are empty, seriously consider not responding: an optional response that only pushes back on judgments can read worse than silence.

Show full SKILL.md (265 more words)Show less

Budgeting 500 words

  • Open with two sentences maximum of thanks and framing; no summary of the paper.
  • Order points by expected impact on the PC discussion, not by reviewer order.
  • Quote the review's exact claim in a few words before rebutting, so a PC member skimming during the meeting can follow without the full review open.
  • Cite the submission by section, figure, or table number every time — the submitted PDF is the only evidence you are allowed to use.
text
Response skeleton (target < 500 words total)

We thank the reviewers. We correct three factual points and answer two questions.

[Factual] Rev A: "the design requires a second network round trip."
It does not: the token is piggybacked on the existing ack (§3.3, Fig. 4).

[Factual] Rev C: "no failure experiments."
§5.4 and Table 6 report crash-restart and partition runs on the same workloads.

[Question] Rev B asked how recovery time scales with log size.
Recovery replays only the tail past the last checkpoint; §4.5 gives the bound
and Fig. 9 measures it at three log sizes.

[Clarification] Rev A read the consistency guarantee as per-object; it is
per-session (§2, invariant I2). The distinction affects the Rev A example: ...

Tone calibration for a single-track PC

Every accepted SOSP paper is discussed in front of the whole committee, so your response's audience is wider than the three or four people who reviewed it. Write so a non-reviewer PC member encountering the paper for the first time at the meeting sees authors who are precise, unrattled, and honest about limits. Concede real weaknesses in one clean sentence ("The evaluation does not include workload X; the submitted results cover Y and Z") rather than burying them — a concession you volunteer is a footnote at the meeting, one you dodge becomes the meeting's topic.

Common failure modes

  • Spending the word budget proportionally to review length instead of review influence.
  • Correcting five trivialities and leaving the one score-driving misreading to last.
  • Smuggling in a new number "for context" — chairs notice, and it taints the compliant parts of the response.
  • Addressing reviewers by name-like inference ("as the senior reviewer notes..."); reviews are anonymous in both directions.
  • Writing 900 words because no hard limit exists. The 500-word guidance is a signal about attention at the PC meeting, not a formality.

Output format

text
[Respond at all?] yes / no (categories 1-3 empty)
[Point map] <review point -> factual error / missed content / question / judgment>
[Word budget] <allocation across points, total target>
[Concession] <the one weakness to own explicitly>
[Compliance check] no new data / no promises / submission-only citations

© 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 SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sosp Author Response

What does Sosp Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window, keeping it within the venue's norms — correcting factual errors, answering direct reviewer…. Sosp Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window, keeping it within the venue's norms — correcting factual errors, answering direct reviewer questions, staying near the 500-word guidance, and never introducing new experiments, new data, or promises of future work.

When should I use Sosp Author Response?

Sosp Author Response fits situations like: drafting a SOSP author response during the pre-PC-meeting rebuttal window; keeping it within the venues norms — correcting factual errors; answering direct reviewer questions; staying near the 500-word guidance.

How do I install Sosp Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sosp Author Response in Codex?

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

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

What does Sosp Author Response need to run?

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

Does Sosp 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 Sosp 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 Sosp Author Response use?

Sosp 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 Sosp Author Response use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 Sosp Author Response?

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Who maintains Sosp 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.