respond-to-referees

respond-to-referees is a skill for Claude Code from pedrohcgs/Claude-Mini. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,118 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of respond-to-referees, MIT.

A guide for preparing a response to peer reviewers during a revise-and-resubmit stage, when an academic journal asks authors to revise a paper. It compares the reviewer report with the revised manuscript and classifies each comment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a structured reply covering addressed, partly addressed, deferred, or disputed comments, with a draft response for each.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of overlooking a reviewer’s concern and helps keep replies tied to the exact changes made in the manuscript.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to create a structured reply covering addressed, partly addressed, deferred, or disputed comments, with a draft response for each.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedrohcgs/claude-mini/respond-to-referees
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 pedrohcgs/Claude-Mini --skill respond-to-referees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedrohcgs/Claude-Mini

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,118 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00070 $0.02118
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01059
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00212

Measured 12d ago against content hash 72fc31572fdf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

respond-to-referees 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to respond-to-referees — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/respond-to-referees/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Respond to Referees

Produce a complete response-to-referees document by cross-referencing the referee report against the revised manuscript. Classify every concern, draft a courteous response for each, and flag anything unaddressed before submission.

Inputs

  • $0 — path to the referee report
  • $1 — path to the revised manuscript

Supported formats and how to read them. In the commands below, FILE stands for the input path being converted — either $0 (referee report) or $1 (revised manuscript). Always use mktemp for the temp file (not a predictable /tmp/... name) so paths with spaces and concurrent runs don't collide, and so untrusted FILE paths can't clobber other temp files via symlink races.

Format How to extract text
.tex, .qmd, .md, .txt Read directly with the Read tool.
.pdf TMP=$(mktemp --suffix=.txt) && pdftotext "FILE" "$TMP" (poppler-utils; use mktemp -t ... on macOS if --suffix is unsupported). Grep "$TMP".
.docx TMP=$(mktemp --suffix=.txt) && pandoc "FILE" -t plain -o "$TMP" (or docx2txt "FILE" "$TMP"). Grep "$TMP".
.html TMP=$(mktemp --suffix=.txt) && pandoc "FILE" -t plain -o "$TMP". Grep "$TMP".

If a required tool is missing or extraction fails, ask the user to provide a plain-text version (.txt or .md) and stop.

Workflow

Step 0: Convert Inputs to Plain Text

Before any parsing or grep, convert non-text inputs (.pdf, .docx, .html) to plain text using the table above. Keep both the temp text file (for grep) and the original (for citation page references).

Step 1: Parse the Referee Report

  1. Read the report end-to-end.
  2. Decompose into discrete numbered concerns. Common patterns:
    • Numbered or bulleted enumerations ("1.", "(a)", "Comment 1", etc.).
    • Section headers ("Major comments", "Minor comments").
    • Implicit concerns embedded in prose paragraphs — extract these too.
  3. For each concern, capture:
    • Concern ID (R{n}.{m} = referee n, comment m)
    • Severity the referee assigned (major / minor / typographic)
    • Verbatim quote of the most representative sentence (~25 words max)
    • One-line summary in your own words

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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 · 145 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 72fc31572fdf

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respond-to-referees is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedrohcgs/Claude-Mini (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,118 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to respond-to-referees, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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