A skill your agent uses when planning author-side communication for WSDM, a venue that historically runs no rebuttal - covers preemptive objection engineering inside the submitted PDF, the narrow…

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Install Wsdm Author Response

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when planning author-side communication for WSDM, a venue that historically runs no rebuttal - covers preemptive objection engineering inside the submitted PDF, the narrow…

  • Works in 3 steps: Consensus objections (raised by 2+… → Misreadings are your fault at a… → Taste objections ("not exciting,"…
  • Planning author-side communication for WSDM
  • SKILL.md covers Preemptive rebuttal: the…, What channels do exist after…, Reading reviews you cannot… and The rejection fork, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Wsdm Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning author-side communication for WSDM, a venue that historically runs no rebuttal - covers preemptive objection engineering inside the submitted PDF, the narrow legitimate channels to chairs after submission, reading reviews you cannot answer, and converting a rejection into a stronger next-cycle or sibling-venue submission.

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.

It sits in Documents & Office, covering PDF. 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

  • Planning author-side communication for WSDM
  • A venue that historically runs no rebuttal - covers preemptive objection engineering inside the submitted PDF
  • The narrow legitimate channels to chairs after submission
  • Reading reviews you cannot answer

Example prompts

  • “/wsdm-author-response”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Consensus objections (raised by 2+ reviewers) are the revision contract.
  2. Misreadings are your fault at a no-rebuttal venue: if a competent
  3. Taste objections ("not exciting," "incremental") signal venue or framing

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

Wsdm Author Response loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 842 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
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). 842 words, ~1,775 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wsdm-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
wsdm-author-response
description
Use when planning author-side communication for WSDM, a venue that historically runs no rebuttal - covers preemptive objection engineering inside the submitted PDF, the narrow legitimate channels to chairs after submission, reading reviews you cannot answer, and converting a rejection into a stronger next-cycle or sibling-venue submission.

WSDM Author Response

At most ML and data-mining venues this skill would script a rebuttal. WSDM is different: the venue historically runs no author response phase - a fact documented as far back as the 2017 reviewing experiment conducted at the conference itself, and consistent with the short review window (August submission, October notification in the 2026 cycle). Plan as if you will never speak to your reviewers. If the current edition's CFP announces a response phase, that instruction supersedes everything here; check it first.

Preemptive rebuttal: the objection inventory

Since answers must ship inside the PDF, build the rebuttal before submission. Two weeks out, run an adversarial read with coauthors playing three WSDM reviewer archetypes - the IR-methods specialist, the applied/industry reader, and the graph/social-data reader - and log every objection in an inventory:

text
# objection-inventory.md (one row per anticipated objection)
| # | Likely objection | Archetype | Answer exists? | Where in PDF | Action |
| 1 | Position bias not controlled in log data | IR methods | yes | §4.2 + Tab.3 | none |
| 2 | Baseline X (WSDM'25) missing            | IR methods | no  | -            | add or scope claim |
| 3 | Gains may not survive online serving    | industry   | partial | §5.3     | add latency table |
| 4 | Graph sampled non-uniformly             | graph      | yes | App.A (in-budget) | keep |

Then enforce the rule that makes this venue-specific: every "Answer exists?" row must resolve to yes + a location or to a claim reduction. "We would explain in the response" is not an available move at WSDM.

Placement discipline for the answers:

  • Objections about validity (leakage, bias, confounds) get answered in the main evaluation text, not an appendix - reviewers who find the flaw first and the defense never will score on the flaw.
  • Objections about scope get answered by narrowing the claim sentence itself.
  • Objections about missing baselines get answered by running the baseline or by one honest sentence saying why it is out of scope - silence reads as evasion.

What channels do exist after submission

ChannelLegitimate useNever use for
EasyChair note / email to PC chairsWithdrawal; a factual error you discovered (broken figure, corrupted PDF); a conflict-of-interest problemArguing merit, adding results, lobbying
Ethics/conduct contactReporting reviewer misconduct or a genuine breachDisagreement dressed as misconduct
Camera-ready revision (if accepted)Implementing reviewer-requested fixes the SPC notedAdding claims reviewers never vetted

The bar for contacting chairs is high and the message should be three sentences or fewer. A team that emails chairs to "clarify a misunderstanding" in a review is spending reputation at a small, single-track community venue where the same SPCs return every year.

Reading reviews you cannot answer

Notification arrives with reviews attached and no reply box. Triage them for the next version, not for argument:

  1. Consensus objections (raised by 2+ reviewers) are the revision contract. They almost always concern evaluation validity or missing comparisons at this venue - fix them with experiments, not prose.
  2. Misreadings are your fault at a no-rebuttal venue: if a competent specialist misread it, the paper afforded the misreading. Find the sentence that permitted it and rewrite that sentence in the next version.
  3. Taste objections ("not exciting," "incremental") signal venue or framing mismatch - route through wsdm-topic-selection before resubmitting anywhere.
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The rejection fork

WSDM accepts roughly one in six submissions (2025: >100 of >600), so plan the fork in advance:

  • Same work, next WSDM (12 months away): worth it when reviews attack execution, not fit. Fold in every consensus fix; expect PC overlap - reviewers remember resubmissions that ignored their reports.
  • Sibling venue, sooner: SIGIR (typically January/February deadlines) for IR-centric work, KDD Cycle 2 (typically February) for general mining, CIKM (typically May) for a broad CIKM-shaped result, RecSys (spring) for recommendation, TheWebConf (typically October) for web-platform work. Re-frame for the destination - a WSDM-tuned paper is not automatically SIGIR-tuned.
  • Short paper at the next WSDM: since 2026 the series has a short-paper track with September deadlines; a focused core finding can land there when the long version keeps losing on breadth.

Worked micro-example: rewriting an answer into the PDF

Suppose the inventory flags: "an IR reviewer will ask why gains shrink on head queries." At a rebuttal venue you would draft a reply; at WSDM you edit:

  • Draft state: results table shows the shrinkage; text ignores it.
  • Bad fix: delete head-query column (reviewers run the slice themselves, and hiding it converts a weakness into an integrity question).
  • WSDM fix: one paragraph after the table: "Gains concentrate on tail queries (+4.1 nDCG@10) and shrink on head queries (+0.6), consistent with our mechanism - head queries already receive abundant feedback, so debiasing has little to correct. This is the intended behavior, not a failure mode." The objection now has a printed answer with a mechanism attached, and the SPC can quote it in the meta-review.

The pattern generalizes: locate the evidence that would have gone into the rebuttal, then write the two sentences of interpretation next to that evidence.

If the current edition adds a response phase

Editions can change process; if the CFP or a chairs' email announces author responses, adapt rather than assume:

  1. Re-read the announced format limits (word caps, scope rules) - do not import another venue's rebuttal habits.
  2. Recycle the objection inventory: rows that made it into the PDF get a one-line pointer ("§4.3 addresses this"); rows that did not get the evidence directly.
  3. Keep the no-links discipline typical of ACM-venue responses unless the instructions explicitly allow links.
  4. Answer reviewers in their own vocabulary and number the replies against review points - SPCs skim responses in minutes.

Output format

text
[WSDM response posture] no-rebuttal cycle confirmed? yes / no (source: current CFP)
[Objection inventory] N objections; unresolved rows: <list or none>
[In-PDF placements] <objection -> section/table map for the top 5>
[Chair-contact check] any legitimate reason to write? yes+draft / no
[Post-decision fork] resubmit WSDM / SIGIR / KDD / CIKM / RecSys / short paper, with re-framing note

© 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 WSDM-Skills/skills/wsdm-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Wsdm Author Response

What does Wsdm Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when planning author-side communication for WSDM, a venue that historically runs no rebuttal - covers preemptive objection engineering inside the submitted PDF, the narrow…. Wsdm Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning author-side communication for WSDM, a venue that historically runs no rebuttal - covers preemptive objection engineering inside the submitted PDF, the narrow legitimate channels to chairs after submission, reading reviews you cannot answer, and converting a rejection into a stronger next-cycle or sibling-venue submission.

When should I use Wsdm Author Response?

Wsdm Author Response fits situations like: planning author-side communication for WSDM; A venue that historically runs no rebuttal - covers preemptive objection engineering inside the submitted PDF; the narrow legitimate channels to chairs after submission; reading reviews you cannot answer.

How do I install Wsdm Author Response in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Wsdm Author Response in Codex?

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

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

What does Wsdm Author Response need to run?

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

Does Wsdm 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 Wsdm 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 Wsdm Author Response use?

Wsdm 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 Wsdm Author Response use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Wsdm 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.

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