curranthro-rebuttal
Use when responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the author's Reply to the published CA✩ Comments. CA has two distinct response tasks — a normal revise-and-resubmit letter to referees/editor before acceptance, and the public, signed Reply to invited commentators printed alongside an accepted Major Article. Structures both; it does not fabricate new evidence.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-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 & the CA✩ Reply (curranthro-rebuttal) CA gives you **two** response tasks, and they are not the same. Before acceptance, you may face a normal **revise-and-resubmit** — a private point-by-point letter to referees and the editor. After a Major Article is accepted, you face the distinctive **CA✩ Reply**: a **public, signed response to the international Comments** that will be **printed alongside your article and its commentators**. The Reply is not an R&R — it is a published piece of scholarship in its own right. Diagnose which task you are in, then use the matching playbook. ## When to trigger - An R&R decision arrived and you are planning the revision + private response letter - Your Major Article was accepted and the editors sent you the **Comments to reply to** (the CA✩ Reply) - Reviewers/commentators disagree with each other (often across subfields) and you must reconcile them - A comment requests changes that would alter your interpretation or expose interlocutors ## Task A — the normal R&R letter (before acceptance) 1. **Read the editor's letter as the rubric.** Solve the decisive points first; headline them in the cover note. 2. **One point-by-point response, every
- When to trigger
- Task A — the normal R&R letter (before acceptance)
- Task B — the CA✩ Reply to published Comments (after acceptance)
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What does the curranthro-rebuttal skill do?
Use when responding to a Current Anthropology (CA) decision OR writing the author's Reply to the published CA✩ Comments. CA has two distinct response tasks — a normal revise-and-resubmit letter to referees/editor before acceptance, and the public, signed Reply to invited commentators printed alongside an accepted Major Article. Structures both; it does not fabricate new evidence.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-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.