finman-rebuttal
Use when a Financial Management (FM) 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 (finman-identification / finman-robustness) or the resubmission preflight (finman-submission).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-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 (finman-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - An FM **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 the revision plan - A reject-with-encouragement note needs a strategy before any re-engagement ## How to read an FM decision The editor's letter is the **priority signal**: it tells you which referee concerns are binding and which are optional. Given FM's criteria, the binding asks usually concern **credibility (identification/inference)** and **whether the contribution is interesting and general enough**, rather than robustness volume — FM **under-weights trivial robustness**, so an R&R rarely turns on "run ten more checks." Address the editor's stated priorities first and in full; treat the referee reports as the menu the editor has already filtered. Because FM values papers "people actually read," a revision that also **sharpens the framing and the so-what** — not just the econometrics — reads as responsive to the journal's taste. A revision is judged on whether the binding concerns are genuinely resolved and the paper
- When to trigger
- How to read an FM decision
- Response-letter structure
- Triage table
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- The FM-specific revision instinct
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Handling a reject-with-encouragement
- Output format
What does the finman-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a Financial Management (FM) 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 (finman-identification / finman-robustness) or the resubmission preflight (finman-submission).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill finman-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.