itcs-author-response
Use to operate under the reality that ITCS has no rebuttal or author-response phase — pre-empting reviewer objections inside the submission, then handling the post-decision situation (camera-ready window on accept, or rerouting and reusing the reviews on reject) since there is no revise-and-resubmit.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill itcs-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.
# ITCS Author Response The defining fact of this skill: **ITCS has no rebuttal and no author-response phase.** Following theory-conference norms, the program committee forms its reviews and reaches accept/reject **without any input from you** in between (see [`itcs-review-process`](../itcs-review-process/SKILL.md)). There is also **no Major Revision** and no revise-and-resubmit. So "author response" at ITCS is not a rebuttal-writing task — it is (1) doing the rebuttal's *work* inside the submission, before the deadline, and (2) handling the situation after the decision lands. Both are covered here. ## Part 1 — The rebuttal you write in advance (in the paper) At a rebuttal venue you would hold arguments in reserve to answer reviewers. At ITCS there is no reserve turn, so every such argument must be *in the submitted PDF*. Pre-empt the three objections an ITCS PC reliably raises: - **"Is the model trivial or all-powerful?"** Answer with an **anchoring result** in the introduction — a separation or surprising possibility showing the model is neither empty nor everything (see [`itcs-writing-style`](../itcs-writing-style/SKILL.md)). - **"Is this actually new?"** Answer with a **delta-fi
- Part 1 — The rebuttal you write in advance (in the paper)
- Part 2 — After the decision
- On accept
- On reject
- What "author response" is NOT at ITCS
- Output format
What does the itcs-author-response skill do?
Use to operate under the reality that ITCS has no rebuttal or author-response phase — pre-empting reviewer objections inside the submission, then handling the post-decision situation (camera-ready window on accept, or rerouting and reusing the reviews on reject) since there is no revise-and-resubmit.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill itcs-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 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.