grant-research

grant-research is a skill for Claude Code from ddanntheman/GrantForge. It costs 73 tokens per session (831 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for building the evidence and funder information needed for a grant application. It collects supporting statistics and examines what a funding organisation has supported before.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research local needs, intervention results, organisational capacity, and a funder's previous grants before writing the application.
Why use it?
It replaces unsupported claims with documented evidence and helps shape an application around the funder's priorities.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to research local needs, intervention results, organisational capacity, and a funder's previous grants before writing the application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ddanntheman/grantforge/grant-research
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 ddanntheman/GrantForge --skill grant-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ddanntheman/GrantForge

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 831 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 $0.00073 $0.00831
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00083

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6efdb4a0d412, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grant-research 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 8d 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-research/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grant Research

Build two research files inside the grant workspace before drafting starts: the evidence base that substantiates the narrative, and the funder intelligence that shapes how the narrative is framed. Weak applications assert; winning applications prove.

Requires a grant workspace from grant-intake (or create one if the user is researching ahead of a specific opportunity).

Part 1 — Evidence base (research/evidence.md)

Read the requirements matrix to identify what must be proven: typically the need (problem severity in the service area), the intervention's effectiveness, and the org's capacity to deliver.

Need data. Search for the most local, most recent data available, in this order of preference: the org's own tracked data (from the profile), then county/city-level government data, then state, then national. Standard sources by domain: Census/ACS (demographics, poverty), BLS (employment), CDC WONDER and county health rankings (health), NCES and state report cards (education), HUD and NLIHC (housing), FBI UCR and local dashboards (safety), Feeding America Map the Meal Gap (food security). Record for every statistic: the figure, year, geography, source name, and a working URL. Verify each URL resolves before recording it.

Intervention evidence. Search for peer-reviewed studies, meta-analyses, and clearinghouse ratings (What Works Clearinghouse, Blueprints, evidence-based registries relevant to the domain) supporting the program model. Prefer studies of the same model; otherwise the closest analog, stated honestly as an analog.

Rules. Never fabricate or approximate a statistic. If the data does not exist at the needed geography, say so and recommend the honest fallback (state-level data plus local qualitative evidence). Flag any statistic older than five years. Every entry gets a full citation in the format the funder requires (or a consistent format if unspecified).

Part 2 — Funder intelligence (research/funder.md)

Foundations. Pull the funder's 990-PF/990 (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, Candid) for the last 2-3 years: total giving, grant count, typical award size, and — most useful — the actual grantee list. Identify grantees similar to the org (size, geography, program). Read the funder's website, annual report, and any president's letter for stated strategy and vocabulary. Note board members and staff with any connection to the org's network.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 8d ago First seen · 79 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 6efdb4a0d412

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grant-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ddanntheman/GrantForge (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 831 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.