jacs-revision
Use when a decision letter/referee reports arrive for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript, to plan experiments and draft the point-by-point response. Structures the revision and rebuttal — it does not fabricate data or guarantee acceptance.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-revision --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.
# Revision and Response to Reviewers (jacs-revision) ## When to trigger - A decision letter (major/minor revision, or reject-with-encouragement) arrived - You need to triage referee comments into experiments vs edits vs rebuttals - You are drafting the point-by-point response letter - You must decide whether to appeal or to resubmit elsewhere ## Triage the reports first Sort every numbered comment into one bucket: | Bucket | Action | |--------|--------| | **Data-required** | A control, extra characterization, X-ray, kinetics, or scope substrate is genuinely needed → do the experiment | | **Clarification** | A real point the text/figure can fix without new data → edit + point to the change | | **Defensible disagreement** | Reviewer is mistaken or asks beyond scope → rebut politely with evidence | | **Optional/over-reach** | Nice-to-have; address briefly or explain why out of scope | Address the **rigor-critical** comments (purity, characterization, mechanism support, reproducibility) first — these are the ones that block acceptance at JACS. ## Response-letter structure 1. **Opening** — thank the editor/reviewers; summarize the main changes and any new data/figures/SI added. 2. **Poi
- When to trigger
- Triage the reports first
- Response-letter structure
- Doing the new chemistry well
- Tone
- JACS revision ledger
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Related resources
What does the jacs-revision skill do?
Use when a decision letter/referee reports arrive for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript, to plan experiments and draft the point-by-point response. Structures the revision and rebuttal — it does not fabricate data or guarantee acceptance.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-revision --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.