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author-response-builder

Turns reviewer comments into structured, professional point-by-point responses linked to manuscript revisions, clarifications, rebuttals, and additional analyses.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly actionable with a clear sequenced workflow, concrete output structure, and well-signaled one-level reference files, all verified to exist in references/. Its principal weakness is verbosity: the same distinctions and prohibitions are restated across multiple sections, inflating token cost without adding guidance.

Suggestions

Consolidate the redundant framing sections (Task, Core Function, Important Distinctions, What This Skill Should Not Do, Hard Rules, Quality Standard) into a single 'Rules & Distinctions' section to remove restated content and improve conciseness.

Add one short worked example (a sample reviewer comment paired with a sample accept/explain/rebut response) to lift actionability toward copy-paste-ready coverage.

Append a terminal validation step (e.g. 'Step 9 — Verify output against the Hard Rules before delivering') to close the workflow with an explicit output-check feedback loop.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The ~280-line body restates the same guidance across Task, Core Function, Important Distinctions, Hard Rules, What This Skill Should Not Do, and Quality Standard, creating several redundant padded sections; it avoids explaining known concepts but is noticeably verbose, fitting the 2 anchor rather than the 3 anchor's 'could be tightened'.

2 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable guidance — an 8-step execution sequence, a mandatory 8-section output structure with per-section contents, and tiered output modes with explicit thresholds (2 or fewer comments, 5+ comments) — but lacks a worked example (sample reviewer comment + sample response), leaving minor gaps that keep it below the 5 anchor.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 8-step execution is clearly sequenced with validation checkpoints (Step 1 clarify-before-drafting, the Input Match Check section, and a constructive pivot for incomplete revisions), fitting the 4 anchor; it falls short of 5 because there is no terminal validate-output-against-hard-rules feedback loop after drafting.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Seven real one-level-deep reference files are each introduced with a clear 'when to use' signal, and the body is section-organized for navigation, fitting the 4 anchor; it is not a 5 because the main body inlines substantial redundant content that could be consolidated, leaving minor organization gaps.

4 / 5

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Description

71%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific and well-targeted to a clear niche, listing concrete response modes rather than vague language. Its main weakness is the absence of an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, which caps completeness and slightly limits trigger-term breadth.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause naming natural triggers, e.g. 'Use when drafting point-by-point responses to peer reviewer or editor comments, rebuttal letters, or response-to-reviewer documents after a manuscript revision decision.'

Broaden trigger terms with common synonyms users say ('peer review', 'editor letter', 'response to reviewers', 'rebuttal letter') to lift trigger-term quality toward comprehensive.

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Specificity

Enumerates multiple concrete action types — 'structured, professional point-by-point responses linked to manuscript revisions, clarifications, rebuttals, and additional analyses' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's outputs, matching the 5 anchor rather than the 4 anchor's 'minor gaps'.

5 / 5

Completeness

The 'what' is clearly stated (convert reviewer comments into structured responses with linkage), but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which per the judging guidelines caps completeness at 3.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural domain terms ('reviewer comments', 'manuscript revisions', 'clarifications', 'rebuttals', 'additional analyses') a user would say, but misses common synonyms such as 'peer review', 'editor letter', 'response to reviewers', or 'point-by-point response letter', so it sits just below the comprehensive 5 anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The author-response-to-reviewers niche is mostly distinct with clear triggers, but it carries minor overlap risk with broader academic-writing or editing skills, fitting the 4 anchor better than the 5 anchor's 'minimal conflict risk'.

4 / 5

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16

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

Passed

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