Research Grants

If you're writing grant proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, or Taiwan's NSTC, this walks you through agency-specific requirements, review criteria, and narrative structure. It covers the fundamentals like project descriptions, broader impacts, budget justifications, and timeline planning, with detailed guidance on what each agency actually wants to see. The skill also integrates with scientific-schematics to generate figures like workflow diagrams or Gantt charts, which is handy since most strong proposals include a couple of visuals. It's essentially a reference guide that helps you navigate the bureaucratic differences between agencies while keeping the core persuasive writing principles in focus. Worth having if you're spending serious time on federal funding applications.

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$ npx -y skills add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills --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), 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.