research-grants

research-grants is a skill for Claude Code from magic3007/dotfiles. It costs 48 tokens per session (7,556 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research-grants, MIT.

A guide for writing research funding proposals tailored to agencies such as NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan’s NSTC.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare project descriptions, aims, significance and innovation sections, broader impacts, timelines, budget justifications, and responses to funding solicitations.
Why use it?
It helps turn a research idea into a proposal that addresses the funder’s required structure, review criteria, budget, and expected impact.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/generate_schematic.py "project timeline with Year 1-3 milestones" -o figures/timeline.png --doc-type grant.

Good fit Use it to prepare project descriptions, aims, significance and innovation sections, broader impacts, timelines, budget justifications, and responses to funding solicitations.

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Install

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magic3007/dotfiles
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magic3007/dotfiles/research-grants

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,556 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00048 $0.07556
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.03778
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01511
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00756

Measured 5d ago against content hash a0f37e6f8570, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to research-grants — 72 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude/skills/scientific-agent-skills/skills/research-grants/SKILL.md · 931 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 931 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

Visual Enhancement (Optional)

Strong proposals often include 1–3 figures (timelines, workflow diagrams, preliminary data). Figures support review but are not a substitute for clear aims and methods.

When figures help:

  • Research methodology and workflow diagrams
  • Project timeline or Gantt charts
  • Conceptual framework or system architecture (technical proposals)
  • Experimental design flowcharts
  • Broader impacts activity diagrams
  • NSTC CM03 research architecture diagrams (often expected)

How to create figures:

  • Preferred: Use the scientific-schematics skill (--doc-type grant) for AI-generated diagrams from a natural-language description
  • Alternative: Build figures in your usual tools (matplotlib, Illustrator, PowerPoint, etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 931 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. 5d ago First seen · 931 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a0f37e6f8570

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research-grants is a skill published in the GitHub repository magic3007/dotfiles (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 7,556 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to research-grants, differing in 72 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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