response-to-reviewers

response-to-reviewers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Rezenders/scientific_writing_agent. It costs 49 tokens per session (541 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for writing a formal letter answering every comment from journal or conference reviewers. It organizes comments by reviewer and proposes corresponding manuscript edits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a revision decision to prepare a structured response letter covering technical, writing, consistency, scope, and question-based comments.
Why use it?
It removes the need to track scattered review comments and write responses one by one. It can produce only the letter or include suggested edits for the manuscript.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it after a revision decision to prepare a structured response letter covering technical, writing, consistency, scope, and question-based comments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rezenders/scientific_writing_agent/response-to-reviewers
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Rezenders/scientific_writing_agent --skill response-to-reviewers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rezenders/scientific_writing_agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 541 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 $0.00049 $0.00541
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00216
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7fabd5a7fe26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

response-to-reviewers 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/response-to-reviewers/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Response to Reviewers

Full resubmission response workflow for journal/conference reviews.

Workflow

Phase 0 — Parse and Categorize

Parse all reviewer comments into a structured inventory with IDs (R1.1, R1.2, R2.1…), category (technical / writing / consistency / scope / question), and identified manuscript location. Present inventory to user for confirmation before continuing.

Phase 1 — Technical Verification (technical comments only)

Use .agents/agents/paper-implementation-checker.md on technical claims.

Implementation reference paths:

  • Primary implementation artifact: <IMPLEMENTATION_REFERENCE>
  • Experiment or analysis scripts: <IMPLEMENTATION_REFERENCE>
  • Generated data/tables: <IMPLEMENTATION_REFERENCE>
  • Public interfaces, schemas, or configuration: <IMPLEMENTATION_REFERENCE>

Surface DIVERGES findings to the user before drafting responses.

Phase 2 — Draft Responses

Use .agents/agents/writer.md to draft a response per comment: (1) acknowledge, (2) state action taken, (3) point to manuscript location, (4) quote revised text if short. Also propose the manuscript edit. Do not modify files.

Phase 3 — Consistency Check

Use .agents/agents/consistency-auditor.md on all proposed edits in aggregate. Pay attention to required macros versus free-text variants, project-name consistency, baseline framing, and terminology rules in .agents/context/terminology.md.

Phase 4 — Assemble Letter

Produce the complete response letter: cover paragraph thanking reviewers, then per-reviewer / per-comment structure — original comment quoted, response, manuscript location.

Phase 5 — Hold for Approval

Present the full letter and all proposed manuscript edits labelled by comment ID. Do not modify any file until the user explicitly approves each edit.

Constraints

  • Never modify files before explicit approval.
  • Do not fabricate manuscript locations — flag uncertainty instead.
  • Do not add citations not in the bibliography.
  • Do not silently weaken limitations or strengthen claims to satisfy a reviewer.
  • Preserve all canonical LaTeX macros (<KEY_MACRO>, <KEY_MACRO>, <KEY_MACRO>, <KEY_MACRO>, <KEY_MACRO>, <KEY_MACRO>, <KEY_MACRO>, <KEY_MACRO>, <KEY_MACRO>, etc.) in proposed edits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 1mo ago Changed · -120 lines · -24 tokens per session 7fabd5a7fe26
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 171 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 503f7c655eca

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response-to-reviewers is a skill published in the GitHub repository Rezenders/scientific_writing_agent (14 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 541 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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