imfer-rebuttal
Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) R&R or decision letter arrived and you need a response-letter strategy for a dual academic/policy referee panel. Plans and drafts the response; it returns to imfer-submission for the resubmission preflight and does not re-run the original identification (imfer-identification).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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 (imfer-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - An IMFER R&R (major or minor) arrived and you must turn referee reports into a revision plan - The editor's letter prioritizes some points over others and you must read the signal - A referee asks for a new identification check, a country-composition test, or a stronger policy framing - Two referees disagree — one academic-leaning, one policy-leaning — and you must satisfy both - You need to decide what to concede, what to push back on, and what to defer - A referee requests a major redesign and you must decide whether to comply, push back, or withdraw ## How to read an IMFER decision letter IMFER R&Rs usually carry the **dual signature** of the pool: an academic referee pressing on identification and frontier novelty, and a reader pressing on **policy relevance and program realism**. Start from the **editor's letter** — it ranks the points and signals which are deal-breakers. The classic IMFER revision arc is: shore up the cross-country design, add the composition/common-shock checks the referees expect, and **sharpen (or appropriately bound) the policy implication** without overreaching. Treat the academic and policy conce
- When to trigger
- How to read an IMFER decision letter
- Reading the decision verdict
- Rebuttal craft
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the rebuttal move
- Output format
What does the imfer-rebuttal skill do?
Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) R&R or decision letter arrived and you need a response-letter strategy for a dual academic/policy referee panel. Plans and drafts the response; it returns to imfer-submission for the resubmission preflight and does not re-run the original identification (imfer-identification).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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.