referee-response SKILL.md skillA
referee-response from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/referee-response@git:20261105.dee0bc5Pins git:20261105.dee0bc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/referee-response/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261105.dee0bc5, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 2, 2026
- Size
- 6,243 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Organizes an author’s response to peer review. Extracts every referee and editor point, tags severity and type, orders the revision by dependency, flags defensible pushbacks as questions, and builds a numbered comment → response → location letter whose substantive answers the author writes. Use when the user has referee reports, a revise-and-resubmit decision, or an editor’s letter and wants to plan the revision, draft the response letter, or check that every point was addressed. The…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Referee Response Turns scattered reviewer comments into an ordered revision plan and a response letter the author fills in. The author writes every substantive answer, including the interpretation of a result and the reason a request is declined; this skill makes sure each point is found, ordered, answered somewhere, and formatted the way editors expect. **Related skills.** `journal-review` writes a referee report for someone else's manuscript; this skill answers one written about yours. `sci-edit` polishes the letter's prose after the author has written the answers. `paper-review-lite` and `citation-check` are useful before resubmission when a referee's point implies the manuscript needs a fresh audit. ## Inputs One or more referee reports, the editor's decision letter if available, and the manuscript (current draft, and the submitted version if the two differ). If a report is a PDF or Word file, read it with `doc-to-markdown` first. Ask once for anything missing that the steps below need; do not guess at a report's content. ## Modes Infer from the request; an argument forces it. - `plan` (default when no letter exists yet): steps 1–3. …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/referee-response@sha256:4f81c7595618709cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.dee0bc5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 16 days.
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| git:20261105.dee0bc5 latest | 2026-11-05 | dee0bc5 | 6,243 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.697c89f | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 6,274 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260917.d88ee2d | 2026-09-17 | d88ee2d | 6,724 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 6,693 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.8289c42 | 2026-09-02 | 8289c42 | 6,855 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6243 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2phv5s2vpzfrr6m6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/referee-response GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4f81c7595618709c946857f061ab2d60fd905fb2eb1bcccedc6303c2e8d7de75
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