Scientific Agent Skills is a collection of reusable procedures that give AI agents capabilities for scientific research across areas such as biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. It is used by researchers and by people building AI scientist workflows with compatible coding agents. The catalogue contains many of the project's skills and supporting instructions.
Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-grantsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-grants)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-grants"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-grants/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-grants"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-grants.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00062 | $0.03555 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.01422 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00711 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00356 |
Grade A, and why
research-grants 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 26d 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- research-grants — 98% identical, 70 lines differ
- research-grants — 88% identical, 70 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 338 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research Grant Writing
Overview
Research grant writing is the process of developing competitive funding proposals for federal agencies and foundations. Master agency-specific requirements, review criteria, narrative structure, budget preparation, and compliance for NSF (National Science Foundation), NIH (National Institutes of Health), DOE (Department of Energy), DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and Taiwan's NSTC (National Science and Technology Council) submissions.
Critical Principle: Grants are persuasive documents that must simultaneously demonstrate scientific rigor, innovation, feasibility, and broader impact. Each agency has distinct priorities, review criteria, formatting requirements, and strategic goals that must be addressed.
When to Use This Skill
This skill should be used when:
- Writing research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, or NSTC programs
- Preparing project descriptions, specific aims, or technical narratives
- Developing broader impacts or significance statements
- Creating research timelines and milestone plans
- Preparing budget justifications and personnel allocation plans
- Responding to program solicitations or funding announcements
- Addressing reviewer comments in resubmissions
- Planning multi-institutional collaborative proposals
- Writing preliminary data or feasibility sections
- Preparing biosketches, CVs, or facilities descriptions
Establish the governing opportunity first
For each task, record agency, opportunity identifier and amendment, activity/project type, due date/time zone, eligibility, submission stage, application form version, limits, required attachments, review criteria and source URL/retrieval date. Check current notices as well as the original solicitation. An archived call, funded award, or budget announcement does not establish live funding availability. If the official package is unavailable, provide a bounded drafting review and list unresolved rules.
Build a requirement -> source section -> draft location -> gap matrix before judging
compliance. Templates in assets/ are illustrative worksheets, not official forms.
Never invent data, citations, investigator records, partner commitments or approvals.
Inspect the final exported files; Markdown text does not establish page compliance.
What ships with it
15 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.
- assets/budget_justification_template.md 7.2 KB
- assets/nih_specific_aims_template.md 3.0 KB
- assets/nsf_project_summary_template.md 2.5 KB
- references/broader_impacts.md 24 KB
- references/core_components.md 16 KB
- references/darpa_guidelines.md 7.0 KB
- references/doe_guidelines.md 7.5 KB
- references/nih_guidelines.md 13 KB
- references/nsf_guidelines.md 7.8 KB
- references/nstc_guidelines.md 7.5 KB
- references/proposal_types_and_resubmission.md 3.2 KB
- references/README.md 2.4 KB
- references/review_criteria.md 2.8 KB
- references/specific_aims_guide.md 21 KB
- references/writing_principles.md 3.5 KB
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.
- 26d ago Changed · +24 lines · +14 tokens per session 3ca7ea8075bb
- 27d ago Changed cad2fa00b09c
- 1mo ago Changed 9208b8b5092e
- 1mo ago First seen · 314 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 34aa292441b2
research-grants is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (54,953 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,555 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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