drafting-proposal-sections

drafting-proposal-sections is a skill for Claude Code from danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,534 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing skill for producing technical and management sections of a US federal proposal from approved outlines and storyboards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft solution and approach narratives for federal bids while following the proposal outline, compliance matrix, and approved win themes.
Why use it?
It makes each requirement, answer, and benefit easier for a government evaluator to find and score.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the federal-proposal-skills plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft solution and approach narratives for federal bids while following the proposal outline, compliance matrix, and approved win themes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills/drafting-proposal-sections
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 danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills --skill drafting-proposal-sections
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install federal-proposal-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,534 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 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 $0.00096 $0.01534
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00767
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00153

Measured 10d ago against content hash acf6255588f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drafting-proposal-sections 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 10d 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/drafting-proposal-sections/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drafting Proposal Sections

Draft proposal section narrative from approved storyboards — narrative that is compliant, responsive, and built to be scored. Federal proposal writing has a specific job: not to describe the offeror, but to make it easy for a tired evaluator to find the requirement, see it answered, recognize the strength, and write down a good rating. This skill drafts to that job.

When to use this skill

Use this skill after outlining-proposals has produced the annotated outline and storyboards, to draft the substantive narrative sections of the technical, management, and similar volumes.

It does not draft the executive summary (writing-executive-summaries), past performance (writing-past-performance), key personnel (developing-key-personnel), or the cost narrative (narrating-cost-volumes) — those have their own conventions and skills. Use this skill for the solution and approach narrative.

Inputs

Required:

  • 11-proposal-outline.md: the annotated outline and the storyboard for the section being drafted.
  • 10-compliance-matrix.md: the requirements the section must satisfy.

Preferred:

  • 05-win-strategy.md: the win themes and proof points.
  • The solicitation Sections L, M, and C/SOW/PWS — the source of truth.
  • Source material in source/ — past performance, technical facts, resumes.

Without a storyboard, do not free-draft. Run outlining-proposals for the section first, or build at least a minimal storyboard with the user. Drafting without a plan is the failure mode this package exists to prevent.

Read ../../shared/glossary.md and ../../shared/pursuit-workspace.md if not already read this session.

Intake

Ask these as a numbered list, then confirm before drafting.

  1. Which section(s). Which outline section(s) is this drafting pass for?
  2. Storyboard status. Has the storyboard been reviewed and approved? If not, draft the storyboard or get it approved first.
  3. Source material. What factual source material is available for the proof points — past performance data, technical details, named personnel, metrics? What proof points have no source yet?
  4. Evaluation approach. Is this a best-value tradeoff or LPTA evaluation? (Tradeoff sections sell value; LPTA sections demonstrate clean acceptability without gold-plating.)
  5. Page allocation. What is the section's page budget?

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 134 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A acf6255588f6

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drafting-proposal-sections is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,534 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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