jru-rebuttal
Use when a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) decision letter has arrived and you need a response-letter strategy. Triages referee reports into a revision plan and reply; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jru-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 (jru-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A JRU decision arrived (R&R, major/minor revision, or reject-and-resubmit) and the team needs a response plan - Referees disagree — one wants more theory, another wants more robustness — and you must reconcile them - A report rests on a misreading and you must correct it without sounding defensive - A requested analysis (a new elicitation, a robustness re-estimate) is large and you must scope what is feasible ## How JRU decisions work and how to read them JRU's referees are specialists, so a report usually contains a few **deep, technical** objections rather than many shallow ones — and the editor (W. Kip Viscusi) weights the substantive decision-theoretic or measurement concerns heavily. Triage before drafting: | Comment type | Response move | |--------------|---------------| | Goes to the headline primitive (representation, identification, key parameter) | Address fully and first — new analysis if needed; this decides the paper | | A specialist's standard demand (separate u from w; selection probe; second elicitation device) | Run it; report the result even if it slightly moves the estimate | | Misreading of the model or the
- When to trigger
- How JRU decisions work and how to read them
- Building the response
- Handling the recurring JRU objections in a reply
- Scoping a major revision
- Checklist
- Structure of the response document
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jru-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) decision letter has arrived and you need a response-letter strategy. Triages referee reports into a revision plan and reply; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jru-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.