grant-writing

grant-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 53 tokens per session (774 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid for research grant applications, which are proposals asking agencies or foundations to fund scientific work. It covers sections such as aims, significance, innovation, methods, and budget explanations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft grant proposals, specific aims, research plans, broader-impact sections, budget justifications, and responses to reviewer feedback.
Why use it?
It helps turn a research idea into the structured format funding reviewers expect. It also helps address the priorities and review criteria of different funders.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to draft grant proposals, specific aims, research plans, broader-impact sections, budget justifications, and responses to reviewer feedback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/grant-writing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill grant-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 774 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00053 $0.00774
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00077

Measured 9d ago against content hash a4e6057b4ea8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grant-writing 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 9d 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.

skills/grant-writing/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Trigger

Activate this skill when the user mentions:

  • Grant proposal, research funding, grant application
  • Specific aims, significance, innovation, approach (NIH format)
  • R01, R21, K award, NSF CAREER, ERC grants
  • Budget justification, personnel effort, subcontracts
  • Preliminary data, feasibility, research plan
  • Broader impacts, dissemination plan
  • Resubmission, reviewer critiques, summary statement

Step-by-Step Methodology

  1. Identify the funding mechanism - Determine agency (NIH, NSF, DOD, ERC, private foundation), mechanism (R01, R21, CAREER, etc.), and specific FOA/RFA if applicable. Note page limits, formatting requirements, and review criteria.
  2. Craft Specific Aims - Write a one-page aims document with four elements: (a) Opening paragraph establishing the problem and knowledge gap, (b) "What is known / what is missing" paragraph, (c) 2-3 specific aims with clear hypotheses and approaches, (d) Impact statement. Each aim should be independent yet synergistic.
  3. Significance section - Articulate the burden of the problem (prevalence, cost, impact). Identify the critical barrier or knowledge gap. Explain how the proposed work will shift current understanding or practice. Cite relevant literature to establish context.
  4. Innovation section - Highlight what is new: novel concepts, approaches, methodologies, or technologies. Distinguish from incremental advances. Position relative to the state of the art.
  5. Approach section - For each aim: state rationale, describe methods in detail, present preliminary data, define expected outcomes, identify potential pitfalls with alternative strategies, and provide a timeline. Include rigor and reproducibility elements (biological variables, authentication of key resources).
  6. Budget preparation - Justify personnel (% effort, roles), equipment, supplies, travel, and other costs. Align budget items with specific aims. Ensure modular budget vs. detailed budget used correctly.
  7. Review and refinement - Check against review criteria (Significance, Investigators, Innovation, Approach, Environment for NIH). Ensure each criterion is explicitly addressed. Review for clarity, conciseness, and logical flow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 9d ago First seen · 54 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A a4e6057b4ea8

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grant-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (898 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 774 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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