vis-author-response
Use when drafting IEEE VIS author responses across the two-phase review, covering the first-round reviewer discussion, and — distinctively — the conditional-accept second-round revision with its summary-of-changes that maps every required change to a concrete edit and is re-read by the same primary, secondary, and external reviewers under the IEEE TVCG process.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-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.
# VIS Author Response Use this after IEEE VIS reviews are released. VIS has **two distinct speaking turns**, and conflating them is a common mistake: a first-round engagement with the reviewer discussion, and — if you receive a **conditional accept** — a full **second-round revision** with a **summary of changes** accompanying a revised paper that the original reviewers re-read against the required changes. This is a journal-style revise-and-review, not a one-shot CVPR rebuttal. ## Triage (both turns) - Answer what affects the decision: novelty, impact, whether the evidence supports the claims, methodology, encoding/interaction rationale, and reproducibility. - Use evidence that already exists or that the revision will concretely add — never a vague promise to "consider" a study. - Correct factual misreadings first; a reviewer who misread a figure or a task is often persuadable. - If you submitted double-blind, keep every word anonymous through the first round — do not name your system, lab, grant, or a public repository even to strengthen a point. ## Turn 1 — the first-round engagement VIS's first phase includes a **reviewer discussion**. Your first-round comments (where the cycle
- Triage (both turns)
- Turn 1 — the first-round engagement
- Turn 2 — the conditional-accept revision (the distinctive VIS move)
- Reviewer pushback patterns (visualization-specific)
- Anonymity in the response (when submitted double-blind)
- Calibration
- Output format
What does the vis-author-response skill do?
Use when drafting IEEE VIS author responses across the two-phase review, covering the first-round reviewer discussion, and — distinctively — the conditional-accept second-round revision with its summary-of-changes that maps every required change to a concrete edit and is re-read by the same primary, secondary, and external reviewers under the IEEE TVCG process.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-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 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.