Agent skill

Rebuttal Response

by M1n-n9 in M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle

Plan, triage, and write academic rebuttals and review responses.

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Rebuttal Response

skills CLI
$ npx skills add M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle --skill rebuttal-response -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle rebuttal-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/M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/rebuttal-response .claude/skills/rebuttal-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
rebuttal-response
GitHub stars
693
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
985 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
2
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Plan, triage, and write academic rebuttals and review responses.

  • Works in 8 steps: Intake Reviews and Constraints → Build the Review Map → Prioritize by Decision Impact → …
  • An AI research agent needs to handle conference
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Operating Modes, Core Principle and Workflow, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Rebuttal Response is an agent skill from M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle. Plan, triage, and write academic rebuttals and review responses. Use when an AI research agent needs to handle conference, journal, workshop, or grant reviews; classify reviewer concerns; decide what evidence or experiments can change the decision; write an AC-facing executive summary; draft per-reviewer responses; correct factual misunderstandings without sounding hostile; handle novelty, baseline, method, experiment, clarity, and scope objections; or produce a final rebuttal checklist.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/rebuttal_playbook.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Summarization and Deep research. The repository describes itself as: Codex skill for full academic paper lifecycle analysis and revision.

When your agent uses it

  • An AI research agent needs to handle conference
  • Classify reviewer concerns
  • Decide what evidence
  • Experiments can change the decision

Example prompts

  • “/rebuttal-response”

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Intake Reviews and Constraints
  2. Build the Review Map
  3. Prioritize by Decision Impact
  4. Choose the Response Structure
  5. Write Each Response Block
  6. Handle Common Concern Types
  7. Tone Rules
  8. Final Checklist

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit da8a231. 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

Rebuttal Response loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 128 tokens; SKILL.md has 985 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~128
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~5.9k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 985 words (~1,949 tokens).

“Use this skill to turn reviews into an evidence-based rebuttal package. A good rebuttal is not an apology letter and not a debate. It helps the AC and reviewers decide that the core concerns have been clarified, weakened, or resolved.”

— opening of SKILL.md by M1n-n9
name
rebuttal-response

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in rebuttal-response of M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/rebuttal_playbook.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit da8a231

Compare with similar skills

Rebuttal Response next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Research Summarizeralirezarezvani/claude-skills28k1 repos~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Deep ResearchTheCraigHewitt/skills159—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Research BriefOpenHands/extensions163—~831Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Rebuttal Response

What does Rebuttal Response do?

Plan, triage, and write academic rebuttals and review responses. Rebuttal Response is an agent skill from M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle. Plan, triage, and write academic rebuttals and review responses.

When should I use Rebuttal Response?

Rebuttal Response fits situations like: an AI research agent needs to handle conference; classify reviewer concerns; decide what evidence; experiments can change the decision.

How do I install Rebuttal Response in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle --skill rebuttal-response -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (rebuttal-response in M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle) into .claude/skills/rebuttal-response in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rebuttal Response in Codex?

Run `npx skills add M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle --skill rebuttal-response -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (rebuttal-response in M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle) into .agents/skills/rebuttal-response in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rebuttal 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 M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle --skill rebuttal-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/rebuttal-response, .gemini/skills/rebuttal-response, .github/skills/rebuttal-response and .opencode/skills/rebuttal-response in your project.

What does Rebuttal Response need to run?

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

Does Rebuttal 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 Rebuttal 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 Rebuttal Response use?

No licence was found for Rebuttal Response or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Rebuttal Response use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 3.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Rebuttal Response?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Rebuttal Response: Wiki Aggregate (LichAmnesia/lich-skills, 234 stars), GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars), Research Summarizer (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars) and Deep Research (TheCraigHewitt/skills, 159 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Rebuttal Response?

M1n-n9 (a GitHub user) maintains it in M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle, which has 693 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 16, 2026.

Source: M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.