rebuttal

rebuttal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ResearAI/DeepScientist. It costs 42 tokens per session (4,480 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A revision workflow for responding to peer-review comments on a research paper or draft. It maps each comment to the smallest honest combination of experiments, manuscript changes, claim adjustments, and response text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during paper revision to plan experiments, update claims and text, and prepare a durable response to reviewers.
Why use it?
It turns broad reviewer feedback into specific work that can be completed and supported by evidence. It also helps keep the rebuttal, or response to reviewers, consistent with the revised paper.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it during paper revision to plan experiments, update claims and text, and prepare a durable response to reviewers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/researai/deepscientist/rebuttal
About the project

DeepScientist is a local research studio that manages the cycle from baseline experiments through research findings and paper-ready outputs. Researchers use it to organize autonomous scientific investigations, review progress, and take control when needed. The catalogue add-ons provide workflows and agent integrations for running research projects with it.

ResearAI/DeepScientist · 3,321 stars · on GitHub

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 ResearAI/DeepScientist --skill rebuttal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/researai/deepscientist/rebuttal/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/researai/deepscientist/rebuttal)
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 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,480 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
  • 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 $0.00042 $0.04480
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.02240
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00896
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00448

Measured 10d ago against content hash c65af527cd5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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.

src/skills/rebuttal/SKILL.md · 488 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 488 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rebuttal

Use this skill when the quest is in review, revision, or rebuttal mode. The goal is to turn reviewer pressure into the smallest honest revision program that can actually be executed.

This is not the same as ordinary write. The task is no longer “draft the paper from evidence”. The task is “respond to concrete reviewer pressure with the smallest honest set of experiments, text changes, claim adjustments, and response artifacts”.

Interaction discipline

  • Follow the shared interaction contract injected by the system prompt.
  • For ordinary active work, prefer a concise progress update once work has crossed roughly 6 tool calls with a human-meaningful delta, and do not drift beyond roughly 12 tool calls or about 8 minutes without a user-visible update.
  • Message templates are references only. Adapt to the actual context and vary wording so updates feel natural and non-robotic.
  • If a threaded user reply arrives, interpret it relative to the latest rebuttal progress update before assuming the task changed completely.
  • When the rebuttal plan, the main supplementary-evidence package, or the final response bundle becomes durable, send one richer artifact.interact(kind='milestone', reply_mode='threaded', ...) update that says what reviewer concerns are now addressed, what still remains open, and what happens next.
  • Hard execution rule: if this stage needs terminal work such as manuscript builds, scripted checks, Git inspection, or reviewer-linked experiment launches, every such command must go through bash_exec.

Three-layer todo contract

  • keep quest-root plan.md as the top-level research map and reviewer-driven route surface
  • if rebuttal work is multi-step, use workspace PLAN.md as the current rebuttal-node contract and CHECKLIST.md as the execution frontier
  • when reviewer-driven follow-up becomes clear, update quest-root plan.md so the next edge to analysis, write, or decision is explicit instead of living only in the rebuttal packet

Read the full file on GitHub · 488 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. 10d ago First seen · 488 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A c65af527cd5a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rebuttal is a skill published in the GitHub repository ResearAI/DeepScientist (3,321 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 4,480 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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