asplos-author-response

asplos-author-response is a skill for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,550 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing an author response to ASPLOS reviews. An author response is the short reply sent after peer reviewers comment on a research paper, mainly to correct factual errors and answer their questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sort comments into factual errors, questions, evidence disputes, and opinions, then draft concise answers with pointers to existing sections, figures, or tables.
Why use it?
It keeps the reply focused on evidence already in the submission instead of adding unsupported claims or proposing new work. It also helps manage the short review window and limited reader attention.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the asplos-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to sort comments into factual errors, questions, evidence disputes, and opinions, then draft concise answers with pointers to existing sections, figures, or tables.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/asplos-author-response
About the project

Awesome Journal Skills is a collection of agent skill packs tailored to hundreds of academic journals across fields including economics, social science, medicine, science, and engineering. Researchers use the packs for tasks such as choosing topics, designing empirical strategies, preparing tables and figures, submitting papers, and responding to reviewers. The catalogue entries are the project's journal-specific skills and related plugins.

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills · 1,109 stars · on GitHub · copaper.ai

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 brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill asplos-author-response
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install asplos-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,550 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 $0.00066 $0.01550
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00775
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00155

Measured today against content hash af8bb6741330, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-15, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asplos-author-response 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 today.

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.

ASPLOS-Skills/skills/asplos-author-response/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ASPLOS Author Response

The 2027 CFP defines the rebuttal's job narrowly: (1) correct factual errors in the reviews, and (2) answer the questions reviewers posed. There is no hard length cap, but reviewers are not expected to read past 800 words (verified 2026-07-08). Both facts should shape every drafting decision below. The 2027 windows are fixed and short — July 6-9, 2026 for the April cycle (open on this pack's check date) and December 1-4, 2026 for the September cycle.

Hour one: triage before prose

Sort every review remark into exactly one bucket:

Bucket Definition Response posture
Factual error The review misstates what the paper says, measures, or assumes Correct it, with a section/figure/table pointer — highest priority, CFP-sanctioned
Direct question The reviewer asked for a clarification Answer in ≤ 3 sentences, citing where the paper already contains the material
Evidence dispute The reviewer doubts a result or baseline Point to the existing run/ablation that addresses it; concede if none exists
Judgment call "Not novel enough", "fit is marginal" One calm paragraph max, or zero — rebuttals rarely move taste
Revision seed A fixable gap you agree with Acknowledge + state the concrete fix; this is you negotiating the Major Revision terms

The last bucket is ASPLOS-specific leverage: because the decision set includes Major Revision, a response that shows requested work is scoped and feasible in six weeks gives the committee a reason to choose revision over rejection.

The 800-word budget

Assume only the first 800 words are read; structure so truncation is harmless:

Words   1- 80   Global note: 1-2 sentences of thanks + the single most
                important correction, stated flatly with a pointer.
Words  80-560   Numbered items, worst objection first. Format per item:
                [R2-Q1] Claim/question -> answer -> evidence pointer (§, Fig, Tab).
Words 560-800   Revision seeds: "If given the opportunity, we will X, Y, Z" —
                each one concrete, bounded, and honest about what exists today.
Overflow        Optional detail annex, clearly marked; assume unread.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. today First seen · 128 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A af8bb6741330

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asplos-author-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,109 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,550 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 2026-09-15.

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