peer-review-response

peer-review-response is a skill for Claude Code from muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for replying to journal peer reviewers during manuscript revision. Peer review is the process where experts evaluate a research paper before publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare rebuttal letters, answer individual reviewer comments, plan manuscript revisions, or understand decisions such as minor revision, major revision, or rejection with an invitation to resubmit.
Why use it?
It helps organise responses to criticism, handle conflicting requests, and explain changes clearly to the editor and reviewers.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the academic-writer plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare rebuttal letters, answer individual reviewer comments, plan manuscript revisions, or understand decisions such as minor revision, major revision, or rejection with an invitation to resubmit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/peer-review-response
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 muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill peer-review-response
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,150 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

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Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01075
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00215

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0bb67756cfc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peer-review-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 12d 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.

skills/peer-review-response/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Peer Review Response

The peer review response is one of the most high-stakes documents in academic publishing. A poorly written rebuttal can cause editors to reject a paper that might have been accepted. A masterful response can rescue a paper from rejection.


Understanding the Editor's Decision Letter

Decision Types and What They Mean

Decision What It Means Typical Revision Scope
Accept Rare on first submission; paper is accepted as-is Minor typographical corrections only
Minor Revision Accept in principle; small changes needed 1–2 weeks; targeted fixes
Major Revision Accept possible if concerns are adequately addressed 1–3 months; possibly new analyses
Reject with Invitation to Resubmit The paper needs fundamental reworking Major restructuring; treated as new submission
Reject Paper is not suitable for this journal Consider a different journal

Reading the Decision Letter Strategically

  1. Read the editor's letter first, not the reviews — The editor often summarises the key issues
  2. Identify which concerns the editor highlights — These carry more weight than reviewer-only concerns
  3. Rank the reviewer comments — Distinguish mandatory changes from suggestions
  4. Check the deadline — Most journals give 30–60 days for major revisions; request an extension if needed

Rebuttal Letter Structure

Standard Format

Part 1: Cover Letter to the Editor

Dear [Editor Name],

We thank you and the reviewers for the careful and constructive review of our manuscript entitled "[Title]" (Manuscript ID: [ID]). We have carefully considered all comments and have made substantial revisions to the manuscript. We believe the revised manuscript is significantly improved and we hope it is now suitable for publication in [Journal Name].

Below, we provide a detailed point-by-point response to each reviewer's comment. All changes in the revised manuscript are indicated in [red text / tracked changes / a separate document].

We remain available to answer any further questions.

Sincerely, [Corresponding Author]

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 12d ago First seen · 199 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0bb67756cfc3

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peer-review-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,150 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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