# rebuttal-guidance

A Claude skill that splits a peer review into numbered concerns and hands you a response plan for each. You still write the final prose.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 308 installs · ★ 10652
- Author: HKUSTDial
- License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/rebuttal-guidance/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/rebuttal-guidance

## What it does

Paste a review and the skill lists every numbered weakness and question, then sorts each one into a category: misunderstanding, missing evidence, novelty, baseline fairness, scope, clarity of writing, theory, efficiency. The categories decide what to answer first.

What drives the advice is a conditional-persuasion model. The skill reads the reviewer's tone from the review text, assigns a mindset cluster, and states how confident that call is. Each cluster comes with historical up-rate figures and a comparison of winning and losing responses. It also points to ten strategy dimensions and three response templates, A, B and C.

No paste-ready paragraphs. For every concern you get a skeleton — acknowledge, answer, show evidence, note the revision — plus a pointer to the section, table or appendix that backs it up and a yes/no on whether fresh experiments are needed. Made-up numbers are off the table; anything unchecked is marked `[TO VERIFY]`. A review text is the starting point, so without one the skill asks for it. Judging a research idea or reviewing a paper before submission is outside its job: the same set ships separate skills for that.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill rebuttal-guidance -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/rebuttal-guidance/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/rebuttal-guidance/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill rebuttal-guidance -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/rebuttal-guidance/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill rebuttal-guidance -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/rebuttal-guidance/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills rebuttal-guidance
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/rebuttal-guidance/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill rebuttal-guidance -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --path skills/rebuttal-guidance
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/rebuttal-guidance/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills --skill rebuttal-guidance -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/rebuttal-guidance/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- turn a messy review into a numbered list of concerns
- tag each concern by type before drafting
- pick tactics that fit a hostile or an open reviewer
- locate the table or appendix that answers a question
- run a pre-submit integrity check on the response

## Example prompts
- Break this review into concerns and give me a plan for each one.
- How should I answer R1.W2 when the reviewer calls my baseline unfair?
- The reviewer ignored my response — recalibrate the strategy for their mindset.

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