writing-executive-summaries

writing-executive-summaries is a skill for Claude Code from danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,357 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

The opening section of a US federal proposal, written to make the case for the bidder. It presents the customer's main concerns and the proposal's strongest reasons to choose the team, rather than simply summarizing the document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or refine an executive summary after the win strategy and proposal structure are known, while checking the solicitation's rules for length and content.
Why use it?
Evaluators may read it first, so a weak summary can frame the rest of the proposal poorly. This helps establish the proposal's central argument early.

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 write or refine an executive summary after the win strategy and proposal structure are known, while checking the solicitation's rules for length and content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills/writing-executive-summaries
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills --skill writing-executive-summaries
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 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,357 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 $0.00083 $0.01357
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00136

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8adc8070927b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-executive-summaries 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 12d 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/writing-executive-summaries/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Executive Summaries

Write the executive summary as what it actually is: the most-read, most influential pages of the proposal, and a persuasion document — not a summary. Many evaluators read the executive summary first, and it frames how they read everything after. An executive summary that recaps the table of contents wastes that position. One built around the customer's concerns and the win themes uses it.

When to use this skill

Use this skill once the win strategy exists and the volume content is at least storyboarded — the executive summary distills the win themes and previews the proposal's case, so it is written with knowledge of both. It is often drafted early for direction and finalized late once the volumes are stable.

This skill writes the executive summary specifically. General section narrative is drafting-proposal-sections.

Inputs

Preferred upstream artifacts:

  • 05-win-strategy.md: the win themes, discriminators, and hot buttons. The executive summary is largely the win strategy in prose.
  • 10-compliance-matrix.md: Section L rules governing the executive summary (page limit, whether it is evaluated, content restrictions).
  • 11-proposal-outline.md and 12-sections/ — the proposal's actual case, so the summary previews it accurately.
  • 00-opportunity-profile.md: the customer and requirement.

Without the win strategy, the executive summary cannot be done well — it has no themes to carry. Recommend running developing-win-strategy first.

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

Intake

Ask these as a numbered list. Skip what upstream artifacts answer.

  1. Section L rules for the executive summary. Is there a page limit? Is the executive summary evaluated, or informational only? Does Section L restrict its content (for example, prohibiting information that appears only in the executive summary)?
  2. Customer hot buttons. What does this customer care about most? (From 05-win-strategy.md if available.)
  3. Win themes. What are the three to five win themes the proposal carries?
  4. The decision frame. In one sentence, why should this customer choose this offeror over the field?
  5. Format. Is the executive summary a cover letter, a standalone volume, or a section — and are graphics allowed?

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 125 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 8adc8070927b

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writing-executive-summaries is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,357 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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