outlining-proposals

outlining-proposals is a skill for Claude Code from danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,447 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured plan for a federal proposal's sections and pages, including what each section must cover and how it will support evaluation. It is built from Section L, the part of a solicitation that explains how to format and submit the proposal, and the compliance matrix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create annotated outlines, storyboards, section plans, and page budgets before drafting proposal text.
Why use it?
It prevents writers from drafting disconnected responses to a list of requirements. Each section gets a defined purpose, evidence, theme, and space before writing begins.

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 create annotated outlines, storyboards, section plans, and page budgets before drafting proposal text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills/outlining-proposals
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 outlining-proposals
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 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,447 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 $0.00105 $0.01447
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00145

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6068b91ca1d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outlining-proposals 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 11d 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/outlining-proposals/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Outlining Proposals

Turn the compliance matrix into a proposal structure: a Section L-compliant annotated outline and a storyboard for each section. This is the planning step that proposal teams most often skip and most often regret. Drafting straight from a requirements list produces a compliant document with no strategy. Outlining and storyboarding first means every section has a defined job — its requirements, its evaluation factors, its theme, its proof — before anyone writes a paragraph.

When to use this skill

Use this skill after shredding-solicitations has produced the compliance matrix and before drafting-proposal-sections. The outline is what the Pink Team reviews, so it must exist before any serious drafting.

It does not write narrative — that is drafting-proposal-sections. It produces the plan that drafting executes.

Inputs

Required: 10-compliance-matrix.md — the outline is built from it.

Preferred upstream artifacts:

  • 05-win-strategy.md: the win themes and proof points to assign to sections.
  • The solicitation Section L — the authoritative structure and page limits.

Without the win strategy, the outline is structurally complete but cannot assign themes; flag every section's theme slot as "to be assigned" and recommend running developing-win-strategy.

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

Intake

Ask these as a numbered list. Skip what the matrix and solicitation answer.

  1. Volumes and structure. What volumes does Section L require, and does it prescribe the section order and headings within each? (The outline must match Section L exactly; Section L wins over any default structure.)
  2. Page limits. What is the page limit per volume, and what counts against it? This drives the page budget.
  3. Win themes. Is 05-win-strategy.md available with themes and proof points to assign?
  4. Authors. Are section authors known, so the outline can assign ownership?
  5. Graphics intent. Does the team have an action-caption and graphics convention, or should the outline simply propose graphic concepts per section?

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 11d ago First seen · 131 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 6068b91ca1d6

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outlining-proposals is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,447 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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