jle-rebuttal
Use when a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) decision letter arrives (R&R or conditional accept) and a response-to-referees letter plus a revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (jle-identification / jle-robustness) or the submission preflight (jle-submission).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-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 & Response Letter (jle-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A JLE **R&R** or **conditional acceptance** decision letter has arrived - You need to triage referee comments into must-do / argue / defer - You are drafting the response-to-referees document and revision plan - A reject-and-resubmit invitation needs a strategy before re-engaging ## How to read a JLE decision The handling editor's letter is the **priority signal**: it tells you which referee concerns are binding and which are optional. At JLE the binding asks are almost always about (1) **whether the legal institution is described correctly and the rule binds as claimed**, and (2) **the credibility of the legal identification** (the staggered-timing estimator, the parallel-trends story, the random-assignment defense), before exposition. Because review is **single-blind**, the editor and referees know who you are — a gracious, evidence-led, non-defensive tone is worth more than at a blinded journal, and self-citation should stay honest. Address the editor's stated priorities first and in full; the revision is judged on whether the **identification and institutional concerns are genuinely resolved**, not on the volume o
- When to trigger
- How to read a JLE decision
- Response-letter structure
- Triage table
- Checklist
- Pacing a JLE revision
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Handling the institutional-correction ask (distinctive at JLE)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jle-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) decision letter arrives (R&R or conditional accept) and a response-to-referees letter plus a revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (jle-identification / jle-robustness) or the submission preflight (jle-submission).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-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.