osdi-author-response
Use when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the conditional-accept shepherd exchange as the real author response, with a protocol for mandated revisions and for cycles that reinstate a response phase.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill osdi-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.
# OSDI Author Response At most venues this skill would draft a rebuttal. At OSDI '26 there was **no author-response period** (verified 2026-07-08) — a deliberate removal, since earlier OSDI cycles had one. The author's voice therefore appears at exactly two points: **before submission**, inside the paper, and **after a conditional accept**, in the shepherding exchange. This skill covers both, plus the fallback if a future cycle reinstates a response phase (待核实 each year — check the current CFP's process section first, always). ## Phase 1: the rebuttal you write in advance Since no clarification channel will exist between December and March, run a **pre-mortem rebuttal** on the draft two to three weeks before the deadline: 1. Convene readers who did not build the system; have them write the three most damaging reviewer objections, in review language. 2. For each objection, classify: *misreading* (the text permits a wrong interpretation), *gap* (the evidence genuinely lacks it), or *disagreement* (a judgment call about scope or trade-offs). 3. Fix each in the only medium available — the paper: misreadings get rewritten prose; gaps get the experiment or an explicit, reasoned limitatio
- Phase 1: the rebuttal you write in advance
- Phase 2: shepherding is the author response
- The shepherding calendar (2026 spacing)
- Phase 3: if a future cycle reinstates a response
- When a mandate demands new experiments
- Failure modes
- Output format
What does the osdi-author-response skill do?
Use when handling author-side dialogue in an OSDI cycle — which in 2026 means no rebuttal at all: pre-empting objections inside the submission, then treating the conditional-accept shepherd exchange as the real author response, with a protocol for mandated revisions and for cycles that reinstate a response phase.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill osdi-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.