aeja-rebuttal
Use when an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) decision letter arrives (R&R or conditional accept) and a response-to-referees letter plus a revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or the submission preflight.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-rebuttal --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Rebuttal & Response Letter (aeja-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - An AEJ: Applied **R&R** or **conditional acceptance** decision letter has arrived - You need to triage referee comments into must-do / argue / defer - You are drafting the response-to-referees document and revision plan - A reject-and-resubmit invitation needs a strategy before re-engaging ## How to read an AEJ: Applied decision The editor's letter is the **priority signal**: it tells you which referee concerns are binding and which are optional. At AEJ: Applied the binding asks are almost always about **design credibility** (the identification, robustness, inference) before exposition. Address the editor's stated priorities first and in full; treat the referee reports as the menu the editor has already filtered. A revision is judged on whether the **identification concerns are genuinely resolved**, not on volume of new tables. ## Response-letter structure 1. **Opening summary** — thank the editor/referees; state the 3–5 substantive changes that define the revision (lead with the identification/robustness changes). 2. **Point-by-point** — quote each comment, then respond with: what you did, where in the paper (sectio
- When to trigger
- How to read an AEJ: Applied decision
- Response-letter structure
- Triage table
- Checklist
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the aeja-rebuttal skill do?
Use when an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) decision letter arrives (R&R or conditional accept) and a response-to-referees letter plus a revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or the submission preflight.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-rebuttal --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.