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.

Install it, pinned
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/referee-response@git:20261008.697c89f

Pins git:20261008.697c89f 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
codex/referee-response/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261008.697c89f, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 2, 2026
Size
5,935 bytes
Repository stars
69
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Organize an author's response to peer review: extract every referee point, order the revision by dependency, flag possible pushbacks, and build the response-letter skeleton the author fills in. Use for revise-and-resubmit planning, response letters, or checking every point was answered.

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.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/referee-response@sha256:a03e801a0c206776

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.697c89f, 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 2 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 36 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5935 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
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Source

GitHub

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_k57hqq2l6mmuzubp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/referee-response
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a03e801a0c206776d675a4e55c5d993b71e73e74060d1626286da9117c85a5e9

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