issta-author-response
Use when drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window or planning a Major-Revision resubmission, covering evidence-anchored replies, the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject outcome model, converting reviewer asks into a revision ledger, anonymity in the response, and the difference between a rebuttal claim and a promised change.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-author-response --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.
# ISSTA Author Response Use this after ISSTA reviews are released. ISSTA's response step feeds a decision that is not just accept/reject: a first-round paper can be told to submit a **Major Revision**, so the response and the revision plan are two connected artifacts. Reopen the current author-response and major-revision instructions before drafting, because the dates and mechanics are cycle-specific. ## Triage - Answer concerns that move the decision: soundness of the technique, fairness of the evaluation, scope of the claims, comparison to related work, and verifiability. Cosmetic complaints come last. - Use submitted evidence — paper sections, tables, the artifact, threats-to-validity discussion. Do not promise experiments you have not run unless you can run them within a Major-Revision window. - Keep the response anonymous. Do not reveal institution, tool name if it de-anonymizes, repository ownership, or grant numbers in the rebuttal text. - Separate a **rebuttal correction** (the reviewer misread something already in the paper) from a **promised change** (something you will add). Label which is which so the meta-reviewer can weigh the paper as-is against the paper-if-revised.
- Triage
- Drafting pattern
- Reviewer pushback patterns
- From reviews to a Major-Revision ledger
- Discussion-phase calibration
- Output format
What does the issta-author-response skill do?
Use when drafting an ISSTA author response for the rebuttal window or planning a Major-Revision resubmission, covering evidence-anchored replies, the Accept/Major-Revision/Reject outcome model, converting reviewer asks into a revision ledger, anonymity in the response, and the difference between a rebuttal claim and a promised change.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-author-response --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.