rfs-rebuttal
Use after a decision letter (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) on a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript, to structure the response letter and revision plan. Writes the rebuttal; assumes the manuscript itself is being revised in parallel.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-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.
# R&R Rebuttal & Response Letter (rfs-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - An RFS decision letter arrives with an editor letter and referee reports - You have a revise-and-resubmit (or a "reject and resubmit") and must respond - You need to plan which comments to fully address, partially address, or push back on > Revise the manuscript first (or in parallel). Do not draft the response letter around changes you have not actually made. ## RFS revision reality RFS runs a **demanding multi-round review** under a handling Editor (within the editor pool led by Executive Editor Tarun Ramadorai). An R&R is an opportunity, not an acceptance: the editor and referees expect substantive responses, new analysis where warranted, and a manuscript that is visibly better. The response letter is judged as carefully as the paper. **Two RFS-specific revision situations:** - **Registered Report Stage 2.** If the paper received Stage 1 in-principle acceptance, the Stage 2 review checks *adherence to the pre-registered protocol*, not whether results are "interesting." Your response letter must map each pre-specified analysis to its result and flag — transparently — any deviation and why. Adding unplanned analy
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What does the rfs-rebuttal skill do?
Use after a decision letter (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) on a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript, to structure the response letter and revision plan. Writes the rebuttal; assumes the manuscript itself is being revised in parallel.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-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.