ecta-rebuttal

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecta-rebuttal --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Rebuttal and Revision (ecta-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A decision letter with a handling Co-Editor recommendation and referee reports has arrived - You need to plan a (typically major) revision and draft a point-by-point response - A referee flagged a proof gap, a generality limit, or missing finite-sample evidence - You reached **conditional acceptance** and must satisfy the Co-Editor's last conditions *and* prepare final files for the ES **Data Editor**'s reproducibility check Do not draft the response before the revised theorems, simulations, and code are actually done — promised fixes that are not yet real read as evasive to this referee pool. ## Read the letter correctly - The **co-editor's letter is the controlling document.** Identify which points the co-editor treats as essential vs. which are referee suggestions left to your judgment. Address the co-editor's essential points fully and first. - An R&R at Econometrica is a genuine opportunity (the acceptance rate is ~6–9%, and R&R is the common path to publication) but signals **substantial remaining work** and likely **another round**, followed by **conditional acceptance** and the Data Editor stage. Plan accordingly;