grant-draft

grant-draft is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ddanntheman/GrantForge. It costs 76 tokens per session (948 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing procedure for preparing sections of a grant application, which is a request for funding from an organisation or public body. It uses the funder's requirements, research, organisation details, writing style, and approved text before drafting each section.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft a grant's need statement, project narrative, or other specified sections after the necessary research is available.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsupported claims and answers the funder's actual questions within the required length.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the grantforge plugin — 9 skills, 1 command shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ddanntheman/grantforge/grant-draft
Any agent
npx skills add ddanntheman/GrantForge --skill grant-draft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ddanntheman/GrantForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install grantforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 948 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00076 $0.00948
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00474
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00095

Measured 4d ago against content hash d4a8b8ef647b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grant-draft 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 4d 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.

plugins/grantforge/skills/grant-draft/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grant Draft

Write narrative that a reviewer scores highly and a skeptic cannot identify as machine-written. Draft section by section, never the whole application in one pass.

Before writing

Read, in order: the requirements matrix (requirements.md), the research files (research/evidence.md, research/funder.md), the org profile (.grantforge/profile/organization.md), the voice profile (profile/voice.md if present), relevant boilerplate (profile/boilerplate/), and the house-style skill. If research files are missing, run grant-research first — drafting without an evidence base produces assertions, not arguments.

Section discipline

For each narrative section in the requirements matrix:

  1. Answer the verbatim prompt. Reviewers score against their question, not against what the writer wished they had asked. Open the section by directly addressing the prompt's core ask; never open with org history unless the prompt asks for it.
  2. Respect the limit with headroom. Draft to ~95% of the word/page/ character limit. Report the count to the user with every draft. For portal submissions, count characters the way portals do (spaces included, unless the funder says otherwise).
  3. Load-bearing evidence. Every claim of need or effectiveness cites an entry from research/evidence.md. Every capability claim traces to the org profile. Nothing invented, ever. Missing support becomes a question to the user, asked before drafting continues.
  4. Mirror the rubric. Where the funder published scoring criteria, check the draft covers every scored element, weighted roughly by points.
  5. Adapt boilerplate, never paste it. The answer library provides raw material; rewrite it to this funder's vocabulary, this project's facts, and this prompt's angle.

Standard section craft

  • Need/problem statement: local data first, national context second, one to two sentences of human texture. End with the gap this project fills — not with a pitch.
  • Project description: what, who, where, when, how many, delivered by whom. Activities map visibly to objectives; objectives are measurable and time-bound (SMART without using the acronym).
  • Goals/objectives/outcomes: distinguish outputs (what the org does) from outcomes (what changes). Give each objective a target, a measure, and a data source.
  • Evaluation plan: who collects what data, with what instrument, on what schedule, and how findings feed back into the program. Name an evaluator if the budget includes one.
  • Organizational capacity: prove it with track record, named staff qualifications, and financial stewardship facts (clean audits, past federal awards managed) — not adjectives.
  • Sustainability: name realistic funding continuation paths; funders read "we will seek other grants" as no plan.
  • Timeline/logic model: build as a table or exhibit when allowed; offer a logic model whenever the funder is federal or education-sector.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 4d ago First seen · 91 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A d4a8b8ef647b

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grant-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository ddanntheman/GrantForge (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 948 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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