Full-lifecycle grant writing engine for Claude — opportunity discovery, RFP intake, cited research, drafting, budgets, and mock-scorer review, in your organization's voice.
Build the grant budget workbook and budget narrative. This skill should be used when the user says "build the budget", "create the budget justification", "budget narrative", "we need the budget forms", or when the requirements matrix for an active grant includes budget deliverables.
Find open funding opportunities that match the organization's profile. This skill should be used when the user says "find grants for us", "what grants are we eligible for", "search for funding opportunities", "any new grants this month", or asks about funding sources for a specific program or project idea.
Write the grant application narrative. This skill should be used when the user says "draft the application", "write the need statement", "draft the project narrative", "write our response to section X", or after research is complete for a grant in the pipeline. Produces section drafts that answer the funder's prompts…
Parse a grant opportunity into a structured requirements matrix and issue a go/no-go recommendation. This skill should be used when the user says "here's a grant we want to apply for", "respond to this RFP", "parse this NOFO", "we're applying for X grant", "are we eligible for this?", or uploads a funding…
Gather the evidence base and funder intelligence for a grant application. This skill should be used when the user says "research this grant", "find statistics for our need statement", "research the funder", "who has this foundation funded before", "find citations to support X", or after grant-intake completes and…
Pre-submission review of a grant application. This skill should be used when the user says "review the application", "score our draft", "are we ready to submit", "run the compliance check", or when drafting is complete for a grant in the pipeline. Runs a compliance audit and a mock-scorer pass, and produces the…
First-run setup for GrantForge. This skill should be used when the user says "set up GrantForge", "set up my organization", "enter my company information", "create my org profile", or when any other GrantForge skill runs and no .grantforge/ profile exists yet. Conducts a structured interview about the organization and…
Maintain the cross-session grant pipeline. This skill should be used when the user says "what's in our grant pipeline", "what deadlines are coming up", "update the tracker", "we submitted X", "we won/lost X", or "grant status". Also invoked by other GrantForge skills to register status changes.
GrantForge's shared writing standard. This skill should be read by every GrantForge skill that produces prose (grant-draft, grant-review, grant-budget, grant-research). It defines the professional grant-writing voice, the list of banned AI writing patterns, and the humanization pass that removes machine tells from…