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Research Grants

Writes competitive research proposals tailored to NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC review criteria, formats, and budget rules.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

Guides you through planning, drafting, and self-reviewing funding proposals with agency-specific rules baked in.

  • Agency playbooks: NSF (Intellectual Merit + Broader Impacts, 15-page project description, PAPPG 24-1), NIH (1-page Specific Aims + 12-page Research Strategy; Significance/Innovation/Approach), DOE (energy, computational science, national-lab partnerships), DARPA (high-risk/high-reward, BAA response, transition paths), Taiwan NSTC (CM03 form, bilingual abstract, research architecture diagram)
  • Section-level drafting: specific aims, significance, innovation, approach, preliminary data, timeline, budget and justification, biosketch, facilities, data management and sharing, broader impacts
  • Failure-mode checklist: conceptual, writing, technical, formatting, and strategic mistakes to audit against before submission
  • Five-phase workflow: from opportunity scouting 2–6 months out to submitting 48 hours early
  • Optional figures: hooks into the scientific-schematics skill for timelines and workflow diagrams (requires OPENROUTER_API_KEY)
  • Templates: NSF project summary, NIH specific aims, budget justification

Who it's for

  • Early-career researchers and postdocs writing their first federal proposal
  • PIs preparing a resubmission and responding to a summary statement
  • Researchers in Taiwan assembling an NSTC CM03 package
  • Labs repositioning one idea across multiple agencies with different framings
  • Research development and sponsored-programs staff supporting faculty

Examples

  1. NIH R01 aims page: "Draft a one-page Specific Aims for a gut-microbiome and metabolic disease R01 using a Significance–Gap–Aims arc" → a template-backed draft with measurable deliverables per aim.
  2. Strengthening NSF Broader Impacts: paste a weak draft and ask for a rewrite covering education, diversity, and societal benefit → concrete activities plus evaluation metrics.
  3. Pre-submission mock review: "Score this 15-page project description against NSF merit review criteria and flag formatting violations and over-scoping" → reviewer-style critique with a prioritized revision list.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/research-grants folder from the GitHub repo K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/research-grants/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/research-grants ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, Git Bash or WSL on Windows).
  2. Create the skills folder if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/research-grants ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Confirm the references/ and assets/ folders came along: ls ~/.claude/skills/research-grants
  6. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "Draft an NIH R01 Specific Aims page for my project."
  7. (Optional) For generated figures, also install the scientific-schematics skill and set export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your_key. Avoid sending unpublished sensitive details to the third-party API.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT