epsl-revision-and-rebuttal
Use when responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision. EPSL decisions are made by a subject editor on the advice of referees who often span two sub-fields, so the response must satisfy each specialist with evidence while keeping the Letter concise. It structures the revision and response letter; it does not fabricate new results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-revision-and-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.
# Revision & Rebuttal (epsl-revision-and-rebuttal) An EPSL revision has a specific tension: referees ask for additions — more standards data, another sensitivity case, an alternative-hypothesis discussion — while the letters format refuses to grow. The craft is to satisfy every technical demand *in the supplement and deposit* while the main text stays near the cap, and to remember that the subject editor, not the referees, makes the call. ## When to trigger - A major/minor revision decision arrived and you are planning the response - Referees from different sub-fields pull in different directions - A requested addition would blow the word cap - Drafting the summary-of-changes note to the editor ## Strategy 1. **Mine the editor's letter first.** The handling editor is a specialist and usually signals which referee points are decisive; resolve those with new evidence, not prose. 2. **Answer every point, point-by-point.** Quote each comment, respond beneath it, and cite the exact location of the change (section, figure, table, supplement item, repository DOI). Unanswered comments read as evasion. 3. **Route additions to the supplement.** New robustness tests, standards tables, and sen
- When to trigger
- Strategy
- Triaging EPSL referee asks
- Response-letter format
- Worked micro-example (illustrative — answering a resolution objection)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the epsl-revision-and-rebuttal skill do?
Use when responding to an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) revision decision. EPSL decisions are made by a subject editor on the advice of referees who often span two sub-fields, so the response must satisfy each specialist with evidence while keeping the Letter concise. It structures the revision and response letter; it does not fabricate new results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-revision-and-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 984 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.