proposal-polish

proposal-polish is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skymanbp/sci-paper. It costs 88 tokens per session (2,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A funding-proposal editing mode for applications to organisations such as the U.S. National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, as well as fellowship applications. It focuses on matching the strength of claims to the evidence that supports them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps edit NSF project summaries and descriptions, NIH Specific Aims pages, and fellowship proposals. It also applies a shared word-choice policy and avoids inventing preliminary results.
Why use it?
It helps proposals stay persuasive without promising more than the available evidence can support. It also gives extra editing attention to the opening pages that shape a reviewer’s score.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sci-paper plugin — 12 skills 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/skymanbp/sci-paper/proposal-polish
Any agent
npx skills add skymanbp/sci-paper --skill proposal-polish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skymanbp/sci-paper

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sci-paper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for proposal-polish

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skymanbp/sci-paper/proposal-polish"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skymanbp/sci-paper/proposal-polish.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,212 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00088 $0.02212
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01106
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00221

Measured 5d ago against content hash 25bab8071e21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proposal-polish 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.

skills/proposal-polish/SKILL.md · 158 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 158 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 25bab8071e21

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proposal-polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository skymanbp/sci-paper (5 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,212 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.