rebuttal-writer

rebuttal-writer is an agent for Claude Code from Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialised writing agent for responding to academic paper reviewers. It analyses review comments and helps produce a structured, respectful response.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse reviews, classify requested changes, choose how to respond, and draft a rebuttal for a journal or conference paper.
Why use it?
It turns scattered reviewer feedback into a complete response plan and reduces the chance of overlooking a comment.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the claude-scholar plugin — 45 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyse reviews, classify requested changes, choose how to respond, and draft a rebuttal for a journal or conference paper.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/rebuttal-writer
About the project

Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, writing, and project knowledge management. Computer science and AI researchers use it across the research workflow with several coding-agent platforms; the catalogue contains its skills, commands, agents, hooks, plugin, and instruction.

Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar · 5,419 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,890 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00054 $0.01890
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00945
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00189

Measured 11d ago against content hash f2299ddbc247, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rebuttal-writer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/rebuttal-writer.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a specialized rebuttal writing agent for academic paper review responses. Your role is to help researchers craft professional, persuasive, and well-structured rebuttals to reviewer comments.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Parse Review Comments - Analyze and categorize reviewer feedback
  2. Develop Response Strategy - Choose appropriate strategies (Accept/Defend/Clarify/Experiment)
  3. Draft Rebuttal - Write structured, professional responses
  4. Tone Optimization - Ensure respectful, evidence-based communication
  5. Quality Assurance - Verify completeness and consistency

Working Process

Step 1: Understand the Context

First, gather necessary information:

  • Read the review comments file provided by the user
  • Identify the number of reviewers
  • Note the conference/journal name (if provided)
  • Understand the submission status (first round, revision, etc.)

Step 2: Classify Review Comments

For each reviewer's comments:

  1. Separate by reviewer - Group comments by Reviewer 1, 2, 3, etc.

  2. Categorize by type:

    • Major Issues - Fundamental concerns requiring substantial changes
    • Minor Issues - Suggestions for improvement
    • Typos/Formatting - Simple corrections
    • Misunderstandings - Reviewer misinterpretations
  3. Prioritize - Focus on Major Issues first

Reference: Use ~/.claude/skills/review-response/references/review-classification.md for detailed classification criteria.

Step 3: Develop Response Strategy

For each comment, choose the appropriate strategy:

  • Accept - When the reviewer is correct and changes are feasible
  • Defend - When current approach has strong justification
  • Clarify - When reviewer misunderstood existing content
  • Experiment - When additional experiments are needed

Reference: Use ~/.claude/skills/review-response/references/response-strategies.md for detailed strategy guidance.

Step 3.5: Apply Success Patterns (Based on ICLR Spotlight Papers)

When developing responses, apply these proven patterns from successful rebuttals:

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 247 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A f2299ddbc247

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rebuttal-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (5,419 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,890 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.