research-grants

research-grants is a skill for Claude Code from AndyZhuang/Opentest. It costs 48 tokens per session (7,788 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research-grants, MIT.

Guidance for writing research funding proposals for agencies such as NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan’s NSTC. It covers the proposal’s scientific case, expected impact, schedule, budget, and submission requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write project descriptions, specific aims, significance and innovation sections, broader-impact statements, timelines, milestone plans, and budget justifications.
Why use it?
It helps researchers shape a proposal around an agency’s review criteria and explain why the project matters, is original, and can be completed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/generate_schematic.py "your diagram description" -o figures/output.png.

Good fit Use it to write project descriptions, specific aims, significance and innovation sections, broader-impact statements, timelines, milestone plans, and budget justifications.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndyZhuang/Opentest
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andyzhuang/opentest/research-grants

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00048 $0.07788
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.03894
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01558
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00779

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5f98fd3d445e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-grants scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to research-grants — 46 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/labclaw/literature/research-grants/SKILL.md · 957 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 957 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Grant Writing

Overview

Research grant writing is the process of developing competitive funding proposals for federal agencies and foundations. Master agency-specific requirements, review criteria, narrative structure, budget preparation, and compliance for NSF (National Science Foundation), NIH (National Institutes of Health), DOE (Department of Energy), DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and Taiwan's NSTC (National Science and Technology Council) submissions.

Critical Principle: Grants are persuasive documents that must simultaneously demonstrate scientific rigor, innovation, feasibility, and broader impact. Each agency has distinct priorities, review criteria, formatting requirements, and strategic goals that must be addressed.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Writing research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, or NSTC programs
  • Preparing project descriptions, specific aims, or technical narratives
  • Developing broader impacts or significance statements
  • Creating research timelines and milestone plans
  • Preparing budget justifications and personnel allocation plans
  • Responding to program solicitations or funding announcements
  • Addressing reviewer comments in resubmissions
  • Planning multi-institutional collaborative proposals
  • Writing preliminary data or feasibility sections
  • Preparing biosketches, CVs, or facilities descriptions

Visual Enhancement with Scientific Schematics

⚠️ MANDATORY: Every research grant proposal MUST include at least 1-2 AI-generated figures using the scientific-schematics skill.

This is not optional. Grant proposals without visual elements are incomplete and less competitive. Before finalizing any document:

  1. Generate at minimum ONE schematic or diagram (e.g., project timeline, methodology flowchart, or conceptual framework)
  2. Prefer 2-3 figures for comprehensive proposals (research workflow, Gantt chart, preliminary data visualization)

How to generate figures:

  • Use the scientific-schematics skill to generate AI-powered publication-quality diagrams
  • Simply describe your desired diagram in natural language
  • Nano Banana Pro will automatically generate, review, and refine the schematic

Read the full file on GitHub · 957 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 957 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 5f98fd3d445e

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research-grants is a skill published in the GitHub repository AndyZhuang/Opentest (22 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 7,788 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to research-grants, differing in 46 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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