Research Grants

This handles the full grant writing workflow for NSF, NIH, DOE, and DARPA proposals. It covers the technical narrative, budget justification, broader impacts sections, and all the agency-specific formatting quirks that trip people up. What's interesting is the mandatory schematic generation requirement. Every proposal must include at least one AI-generated figure using the scientific-schematics skill, which honestly makes sense since grants without visuals are weaker. The skill knows review criteria for each agency, helps structure specific aims versus project descriptions, and includes templates for responding to reviewer comments on resubmissions. If you write federal research proposals, this consolidates a lot of institutional knowledge into one place.

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$ npx -y skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill research-grants --agent claude-code

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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), and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) 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.