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.
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/AER-Skills --skill aer-rebuttalgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/AER-SkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/aer-skills/aer-rebuttal)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/aer-skills/aer-rebuttal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brycewang-stanford/aer-skills/aer-rebuttal/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00068 | $0.02501 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.01251 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00500 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00250 |
Grade A, and why
aer-rebuttal 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 13d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AER Rebuttal
Overview
A Revise & Resubmit at AER is precious. The rebuttal goal is not to "defend the paper"; it is to give the editor a credible package they can send back to referees with confidence.
Rule: revise the manuscript first; write the response letter against the revised manuscript, never the old draft.
When to Use
- An R&R decision has arrived
- A "reject and resubmit" requires a structured response
- A conditional acceptance comes with minor revisions
- The user needs to decide which reviewer comments to concede, clarify, or push back on
Do not use this skill for:
- Initial submission (use
aer-submission) - Pre-emptive robustness drafting (use
aer-robustness) - Writing referee reports as a reviewer (different conventions)
Response Principle
Every reviewer comment ends in exactly one of:
- Clarified in response only — no manuscript change; the answer was already there but hard to find
- Revised in manuscript only — change made, briefly noted in response
- Revised in both manuscript and response — change made, response explains the substance
- Respectfully declined with justification — change not made, explicit rationale given
No comment ends in the vague middle ground.
Triage Workflow
Step 1 — Parse
Convert the editor letter and each referee report into an atomized list of comments. Number them: E1, E2, ... for editor; R1.1, R1.2, ... for Referee 1; R2.1, ... for Referee 2.
Step 2 — Classify
For each comment, assign one category:
| Category | Definition |
|---|---|
misunderstanding |
The paper answers this, but the answer was buried |
clarity_problem |
The argument is fine; the prose caused confusion |
evidence_gap |
A genuine missing analysis or robustness check |
scope_mismatch |
Reasonable request, but outside the paper's contribution |
incorrect_premise |
Comment based on a factual or interpretive error |
high_risk |
Challenges novelty, validity, identification, or central claim |
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 290 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A ecf814ac6b55
aer-rebuttal is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/AER-Skills (49 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,501 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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