wber-rebuttal
Use when a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) and you need the response-letter strategy — triaging editor vs. referee asks, sequencing new analysis, and writing point-by-point replies for the identification and policy referee archetypes. Plans the revision; it does not run the new analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-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 (wber-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A WBER decision letter arrived (R&R, major/minor revision, or reject-with-encouragement) - You need to triage which referee asks are deal-breakers vs. optional - The two referees disagree, or one is identification-focused and the other policy-focused - You are deciding what new analysis is worth running before resubmitting - You need to draft the point-by-point response letter ## Read the letter through the WBER lens WBER revisions almost always hit the journal's two-part bar: the **identification referee** wants the design hardened; the **policy referee** wants relevance, external validity, and cost. The editor's letter is the binding document — **the editor's synthesis outranks any single referee**, and the editor will signal which concerns are essential. Read the editor's framing first, then map each referee point to a referee archetype so your tone and evidence fit the reader. Single-anonymized review means the referees know who you are; engage them as informed colleagues, not adversaries. ## Triage every point | Tier | What it is | How to handle | |------|-----------|----------------| | **Deal-breaker** | The editor or a
- When to trigger
- Read the letter through the WBER lens
- Triage every point
- Writing the response letter
- Sequencing the revision work
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Tone and the single-anonymized referee
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the wber-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) and you need the response-letter strategy — triaging editor vs. referee asks, sequencing new analysis, and writing point-by-point replies for the identification and policy referee archetypes. Plans the revision; it does not run the new analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-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.