restud-rebuttal
Use when a referee report or R&R has arrived for a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript and a point-by-point response letter plus aligned manuscript revisions are needed. Structures the revision and the letter; does not redo the science from scratch.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-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.
# REStud Rebuttal (restud-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A decision letter with referee reports has arrived (R&R, or reject-and-resubmit) - The user has a revised draft and needs the response letter - The user is unsure which comments to concede, clarify, or push back on - Multiple referees disagree and the response must reconcile them without contradiction ## REStud revision philosophy REStud is known for **developing strong papers across rounds** with demanding referees. Treat the R&R as a collaboration, not a defense: the editor wants the paper to become publishable. The strongest response **revises the manuscript first, then writes the letter against the revised version** — never the other way around. Two REStud-specific facts to plan for: (1) review is **double-anonymous**, so address "Referee 2" by number and keep replies anonymizable; (2) acceptance is conditional on the **Data Editor's pre-publication reproducibility check** (AEA DCAS, Zenodo deposit — see `restud-replication-package`), so a revision that adds empirical results must keep the replication package in lockstep — do not promise a number you cannot regenerate from the deposit. Push new proofs and bulky robustness
- When to trigger
- REStud revision philosophy
- Triage every comment
- The response letter
- Reconciling conflicting referees
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the restud-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a referee report or R&R has arrived for a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript and a point-by-point response letter plus aligned manuscript revisions are needed. Structures the revision and the letter; does not redo the science from scratch.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-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.