paper-rebuttal

paper-rebuttal is a skill for Claude Code from EvoScientist/EvoSkills. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,094 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing a response to peer reviewers after they comment on a research paper submitted for publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze reviewer feedback, identify the concerns behind each score, combine repeated issues, and write a focused rebuttal.
Why use it?
It helps focus the response on the concerns most likely to affect the reviewers’ scores instead of treating every comment as equally important.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to analyze reviewer feedback, identify the concerns behind each score, combine repeated issues, and write a focused rebuttal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evoscientist/evoskills/paper-rebuttal
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 EvoScientist/EvoSkills --skill paper-rebuttal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoSkills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,094 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00127 $0.02094
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01047
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00419
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00209

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1add324da299, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/paper-rebuttal/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Rebuttal

A systematic approach to writing rebuttals after receiving peer review feedback. The goal is not to defend every point — it's to move scores by addressing the concerns that actually drive them.

When to Use This Skill

  • User received reviewer comments and needs to write a rebuttal
  • User asks how to respond to specific reviewer criticism
  • User wants to analyze reviews strategically before responding
  • User mentions "rebuttal", "reviewer comments", "review feedback", "respond to reviewers"

For pre-submission self-review and catching weaknesses before they become reviewer complaints, use the paper-review skill.

Step 1: Diagnose Reviews

Before writing a single word, answer: "Why did this reviewer give this exact score?" Not what they wrote — what drove the score. Most researchers skip this and address every comment equally. That is a mistake.

Score Diagnosis

For each reviewer, ask: "What would move this reviewer from their current score to acceptance?"

Score Range Typical Situation Your Strategy
7+ Already your champion Arm them with ammunition for the discussion phase
5-6 On the fence, 1-2 concerns holding them back Identify and resolve those specific concerns
3-4 Fundamental objection Determine if the objection is addressable; if not, focus elsewhere

Color-Code Every Comment

Read through each review and mark every comment:

Color Meaning Action Budget
Red Score-driving concern — this is why the score is low Address first, maximum effort and evidence 60%
Orange Addressable concern — can be resolved Respond with concrete data or revision 30%
Gray Minor or cosmetic Acknowledge briefly, confirm fix 10%
Green Positive comment or praise Note as ammunition for your champion

Identify the Invisible Question

Behind every reviewer comment is an unspoken question. A comment like "The baselines are outdated" really asks: "Is this method actually competitive with current approaches?" Address the invisible question, not just the surface request.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

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.

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 · 160 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 1add324da299

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-rebuttal is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvoScientist/EvoSkills (436 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,094 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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