Draft a structured response-to-reviewers document for every comment in an R&R decision. One sub-agent per reviewer (max 3). Use after receiving a Revise & Resubmit decision from a journal.
Produces a complete, submission-ready response letter addressing every reviewer comment. Follows the professional norms of Q1 management journal peer review.
→ agents/response-agent.md
1 sub-agent per reviewer (max 3 parallel). Each sub-agent handles all comments from one reviewer and returns a formatted response section.
Dear Editor [Name],
We are grateful for the opportunity to revise our manuscript "[Title]"
(Manuscript ID: [ID]) and thank the Editor and reviewers for their
constructive and detailed feedback. We have carefully addressed all
comments as detailed below.
All changes are highlighted in tracked changes in the revised manuscript.
A clean copy is also provided.
[Author names]
For every reviewer comment, the agent produces:
REVIEWER [N] — COMMENT [N.M]
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COMMENT (verbatim):
"[Exact quote of reviewer comment]"
NATURE: [Factual / Methodological / Theoretical / Editorial / Unfair]
OUR RESPONSE:
We thank Reviewer [N] for this insightful comment. [2–4 sentence response
addressing the substance of the comment directly.]
MANUSCRIPT CHANGE:
[Section X, paragraph Y, page Z]: [Description of what was changed, added,
or deleted in response to this comment.]
REVISED TEXT (if applicable):
"[New or amended text as it appears in the revised manuscript]"
Factual: Reviewer disputes a claim or statistic → provide citation or correct the claim Methodological: Reviewer questions sampling, analysis, validity → address with additional analysis or limitation acknowledgment Theoretical: Reviewer wants different theory or deeper theoretical grounding → extend or defend theoretical choice Editorial: Grammar, clarity, structure, word count → accept and revise Unfair: Reviewer asks for something outside scope or contradicts another reviewer → politely defend with rationale
Main agent collects all reviewer response sections and assembles:
Final output only: run
human-writerto humanize the assembled letter and save asResponse-to-Reviewers-[YYYY-MM-DD].docx.