grant-proposal

grant-proposal is a skill for Claude Code from muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,120 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide and writing tool for preparing grant proposals, which are applications for research funding from organisations such as NIH, NSF, or the European Research Council.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or improve funding applications, specific aims, research plans, budgets, and responses to funder requirements.
Why use it?
It helps match a proposal to a funder's review criteria, required structure, and limits instead of treating every application the same way.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the academic-writer plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft or improve funding applications, specific aims, research plans, budgets, and responses to funder requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/grant-proposal
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 muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill grant-proposal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,120 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 $0.00000 $0.02120
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01060
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00212

Measured 11d ago against content hash b558b95c18b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grant-proposal 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 11d 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.

skills/grant-proposal/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grant Proposal

A grant proposal is simultaneously a scientific document, a persuasive argument, and a strategic communication with a specific review panel. Understanding the funding body's values and review criteria is as important as the science itself.


Grant Types Comparison

Funder Key Grant Types Review Criteria Word/Page Limits
NIH (US) R01, R21, R03, K awards, F awards Significance, Investigators, Innovation, Approach, Environment (scored 1–9) 12 pages (R01 Research Strategy)
NSF (US) Standard, CAREER, collaborative Intellectual Merit + Broader Impacts (equal weight) 15 pages (Project Description)
EU Horizon Europe ERC Starting/Consolidator/Advanced, MSCA, collaborative Excellence, Impact, Implementation Varies by scheme (15–50 pages)
Wellcome Trust (UK) Discovery Research, Investigator Awards Scientific quality, career stage, team, environment Varies by scheme
ERC StG, CoG, AdG, PoC, Synergy Scientific excellence only (no socioeconomic impact required) 15 pages (B2 section)
UKRI / MRC / BBSRC Standard research grants, fellowships Timeliness, quality, team, value for money Typically 6–8 pages

Anatomy of a Grant Proposal

Universal Sections (Most Funders)

Section Purpose Key Principle
Abstract / Project Summary 1-page standalone overview Write last; must work independently
Specific Aims / Objectives What you will do and why The make-or-break page (NIH)
Background / Significance Why this problem matters Gap → impact → your solution
Innovation What is genuinely new Must be scientifically novel, not incremental
Approach / Methods How you will do it Feasibility + rigor + contingency plans
Budget Justification Why each cost is necessary Every line must be justified
Biosketches / CVs Team credentials Highlight relevant expertise and track record
Facilities & Resources What environment you have Demonstrates feasibility
References Literature cited Keep focused; reviewers notice padding

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 11d ago First seen · 173 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b558b95c18b6

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grant-proposal is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,120 tokens. 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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