aejmac-rebuttal
Use when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision plan. Plans the rebuttal and revision; it does not run new identification, model, or robustness work itself (route to those skills).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-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 (aejmac-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - An R&R from the editor/coeditor and referees has arrived - A reject-with-comments where a re-submission (here or elsewhere) is being weighed - Referee reports conflict with each other and you must reconcile them - You need to convert a pile of macro objections into a tractable revision plan ## The AEJ: Macro rebuttal posture AEJ: Macro review is **single-blind** and editor/coeditor-managed; the coeditor's letter is the **binding instruction set** — when a referee and the coeditor disagree, follow the coeditor. The response must show that the **broad-interest macro contribution survived** the scrutiny and that the identified-empirical and/or quantitative-model objections are answered with **new exhibits, not new prose alone**. Macro referees reward a response that re-runs the decisive check and reports the (possibly changed) number honestly. ## Building the response ### Step 1 — Triage every comment - Build a table: comment → required action → owning skill → main-text vs. appendix → status. - Tag each as **(a) do and show**, **(b) do and report even if it weakens the result**, or **(c) reasoned pushback**. Most shou
- When to trigger
- The AEJ: Macro rebuttal posture
- Building the response
- Step 1 — Triage every comment
- Step 2 — Map comments to the macro skills
- Step 3 — Write the letter
- Step 4 — Reconcile conflicts
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette: the number moved (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the aejmac-rebuttal skill do?
Use when an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-comments) and you need a response-letter strategy and revision plan. Plans the rebuttal and revision; it does not run new identification, model, or robustness work itself (route to those skills).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-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.