rebuttal

rebuttal is a skill for Claude Code from JeanDiable/academic-research-plugin. It costs 87 tokens per session (4,907 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for preparing conference-paper rebuttals, which are written responses to reviewer feedback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analyzing reviewer comments, planning replies for each reviewer, drafting venue-compliant responses, and handling follow-up rounds.
Why use it?
It turns lengthy reviews into categorized concerns and a response plan while marking missing experiment results for later insertion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./output/rebuttal/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS/.

Part of the academic-research plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Analyzing reviewer comments, planning replies for each reviewer, drafting venue-compliant responses, and handling follow-up rounds.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JeanDiable/academic-research-plugin
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeandiable/academic-research-plugin/rebuttal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 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.

agentmods badge for rebuttal

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for rebuttal

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,907 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 $0.00087 $0.04907
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.02454
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00981
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00491

Measured 12d ago against content hash ebcf6d498277, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/bibtex_utils.py, scripts/paper_search.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/rebuttal/SKILL.md · 423 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 423 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Prepare a grounded, venue-compliant rebuttal for conference paper reviewer feedback. The skill follows a 3-phase pipeline:

  1. Review Analysis — Parse reviews, atomize concerns, classify severity/type, identify shared themes
  2. Strategy Plan — Per-reviewer response strategy with attitude, angle, evidence mapping, and experiment gap report
  3. Draft & Validate — Write rebuttal with placeholders for pending experiments, run lints and stress test, produce paste-ready output

The skill writes all rebuttal prose except experiment results. For issues requiring new experiments, it writes the surrounding context and inserts [INSERT: ...] placeholders where results should go.

Arguments

<paper-path> (required)

Path to the submitted paper. Can be:

  • A PDF file (absolute or relative path)
  • A LaTeX project directory (will look for main.tex or first .tex file)

<reviews-path> (required)

Path to a markdown file containing reviews copied from OpenReview/CMT/HotCRP. Reviewer IDs should be preserved (e.g., ## Reviewer 1, ## Reviewer #2, ## R3).

--venue (optional)

Target conference. Options: NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL, AAAI, ICCV, ICLR.

  • Default: auto-detect from review format and scoring scale
  • Fallback: generic format
  • Determines character limits, response structure, and review parsing heuristics

--char-limit (optional, default: venue-specific or 5000)

Character limit for the rebuttal. Overrides venue default. This is the total limit across all reviewer responses.

--plan-only (optional)

Stop after Phase 2. Outputs ISSUE_BOARD.md + STRATEGY_PLAN.md + EXPERIMENT_GAPS.md without drafting the rebuttal. Useful for reviewing the strategy before committing to a draft.

--followup (optional)

Follow-up round mode. Expects an existing output directory from a prior run. Parses new reviewer comments and generates delta replies only.

Setup

Install dependencies:

python -m pip install -r "BASE_DIR/scripts/requirements.txt"

Read the full file on GitHub · 423 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 12d ago First seen · 423 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A ebcf6d498277

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rebuttal is a skill published in the GitHub repository JeanDiable/academic-research-plugin (23 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 4,907 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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