ier-rebuttal
Use when an International Economic Review (IER) decision letter or referee report needs a response strategy and a revision plan. Triages comments and structures the response letter to a rigor-leaning, theory-tilted review; it does not invent new results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ier-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 Strategy (ier-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - An IER R&R (or major/minor revision) letter arrived and you need a response plan - A reject-and-resubmit or a split decision (referees disagree) needs a strategy - A referee challenges the load-bearing assumption, the identification, or a proof and you must decide what to concede vs. defend - You need to convert a stack of referee comments into an ordered, owned revision plan ## Reading an IER decision letter IER reviews are rigor-gated and theory-leaning, so the comments that *must* be resolved are usually about **correctness and generality**, not framing. Triage every comment into one of four buckets before writing a word of response: | Bucket | What it is | Response posture | |--------|------------|------------------| | Must-fix (correctness) | A genuine error, an undefended load-bearing assumption, an identification hole, a gap in a proof | Fix fully; show the fix in the paper AND summarize it in the letter | | Must-address (generality) | "Does this survive weaker assumptions / a different specification?" | Run it; report the result honestly (including if it bounds the headline) | | Reasonable-but-costly | A check the refe
- When to trigger
- Reading an IER decision letter
- The response-letter craft
- Handling split decisions and the theory/empirics referee divide
- Worked example (illustrative)
- Make re-checking trivial — the rigor-journal response habit
- Concede well, fight rarely
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Referee comment patterns and the response that retires each
- Output format
What does the ier-rebuttal skill do?
Use when an International Economic Review (IER) decision letter or referee report needs a response strategy and a revision plan. Triages comments and structures the response letter to a rigor-leaning, theory-tilted review; it does not invent new results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ier-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.