revise

revise is a skill for Claude Code from Aperivue/medsci-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (7,419 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for answering peer-review comments on a research manuscript, including classifying requests, tracking edits, and preparing a response letter for the editor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to number and classify reviewer comments, coordinate new statistical analyses or figures, update the manuscript, and draft the response and cover letter.
Why use it?
Reviewer feedback can mix major changes, small edits, and disagreements. Organizing each comment makes it easier to show what was changed, what was analyzed, and what needs a reasoned response.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the medsci-writing plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to number and classify reviewer comments, coordinate new statistical analyses or figures, update the manuscript, and draft the response and cover letter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aperivue/medsci-skills/revise
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Aperivue/medsci-skills --skill revise
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install medsci-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,419 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00059 $0.07419
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.03710
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01484
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00742

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4733786ab5f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

revise 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/_quote_match.py, scripts/check_density_complaint.py, scripts/check_response_claims.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/revise/SKILL.md · 584 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 584 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Revision Skill -- Response to Peer Reviewers

Purpose

Parse reviewer decision letters, classify each comment by type, generate a formal Response to Reviewers document, track required manuscript changes, and coordinate with /analyze-stats or /make-figures when new analyses or visuals are needed.


Activation

When the user provides reviewer comments (pasted text, PDF, or file path), or requests revision of a manuscript, this skill activates. Before proceeding, confirm:

  1. The reviewer decision letter (pasted text or file path)
  2. The current manuscript file (paper/main.tex or paper/main.qmd)
  3. The revision round number (default: R1)
  4. The journal name (affects cover letter format)

Reference Files

  • Response-letter voice gallery: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/r2r_voice.md -- before/after examples, three response skeletons (accept / partial-accept / polite-rebuttal), and a meta-phrase-to-natural conversion table. Read it before drafting the Response to Reviewers document.

Step 1: Parse and Number All Comments

Read the full decision letter. Extract every discrete comment from every reviewer and the editor.

Numbering Convention

E-1, E-2, ...       <- Editor comments
R1-1, R1-2, ...     <- Reviewer 1 comments
R2-1, R2-2, ...     <- Reviewer 2 comments
R3-1, R3-2, ...     <- Reviewer 3 (if present)

If a reviewer groups multiple requests in one paragraph, split them into sub-items: R1-3a, R1-3b, R1-3c

Classification

Type Symbol Definition
MAJOR [MAJ] Requires new experiment, re-analysis, new figure/table, or substantial structural rewrite
MINOR [MIN] Requires text revision, clarification, formatting change, or additional citation
REBUTTAL [REB] Reviewer is factually incorrect, misunderstood the study, or requests something scientifically unjustified

Output a classified comment list before generating responses:

E-1   [MIN]  Request to shorten abstract
R1-1  [MAJ]  Requires subgroup analysis by scanner type
R1-2  [MIN]  Clarify exclusion criteria rationale
R1-3  [REB]  Claims our sample size is underpowered (we disagree)
R2-1  [MAJ]  Requires additional figure showing calibration curve
R2-2  [MIN]  Add reference to [Author Year]

Read the full file on GitHub · 584 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 · 584 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 4733786ab5f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

revise is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aperivue/medsci-skills (292 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 7,419 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.

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