New: 98,000+ skills indexed from GitHub repos with 100+ stars · every skill safety-checkedBrowse top skillsTop skills
Esc to closeBrowse all skills
Submit a skillBrowse skills
Submit a skillBrowse skills

Agent skill

Research Grants

by K-Dense-AI in K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC.

MITAuto-check: notesResearch & Science

Install Research Grants

skills CLI
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer --skill research-grants -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer research-grants --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research-grants .claude/skills/research-grants && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
research-grants
GitHub stars
2.4k
Used in
16 other repos
Token cost
~3.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,561 words
Files
16 (incl. references, assets)
Skills in repo
21
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC.

  • Works in 5 steps: Planning and Preparation (2-6 months… → Drafting (2-3 months before deadline) → Internal Review (1-2 months before… → …
  • Tasks that involve Grant writing
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use This Skill, Visual Enhancement (Optional) and Agency-Specific Overview, plus 8 more sections
  • Calls python; needs OPENROUTER_API_KEY

What it does

Research Grants is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer. Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 17 other files, including reference files and assets (for example `assets/budget_justification_template.md`, `assets/nih_specific_aims_template.md` and `assets/nsf_project_summary_template.md`). Compatibility notes: Works in Agent Skills-compatible hosts. Grant-writing guidance needs no network; optional figures via the scientific-schematics skill require OPENROUTERAPIKEY…

It sits in Research & Science, covering Grant writing and Proposals and quotes. The repository describes itself as: A general purpose scientific writer. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Grant writing
  • Tasks that involve Proposals and quotes

Example prompts

  • “/research-grants”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • A credential in OPENROUTER_API_KEY
  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Works in Agent Skills-compatible hosts. Grant-writing guidance needs no network; optional figures via the scientific-schematics skill require OPENROUTER_API_KEY and outbound API access.
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Bash

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Planning and Preparation (2-6 months before deadline)
  2. Drafting (2-3 months before deadline)
  3. Internal Review (1-2 months before deadline)
  4. Finalization (2-4 weeks before deadline)
  5. Submission (1 week before deadline)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 529b9f7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Bash

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • arxiv.org
    • openrouter.ai
    • nsf.gov
    • doi.org
    • export.arxiv.org

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • OPENROUTER_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Works in Agent Skills-compatible hosts. Grant-writing guidance needs no network; optional figures via the scientific-schematics skill require OPENROUTER_API_KEY and outbound API access.

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Research Grants loads about 3.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~53k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,561 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~53k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer at commit 529b9f7, republished under its MIT licence (© K-Dense-AI). 1,561 words, ~3,558 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/research-grants/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 15 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
research-grants
description
Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Edit, Bash
compatibility
Works in Agent Skills-compatible hosts. Grant-writing guidance needs no network; optional figures via the scientific-schematics skill require OPENROUTER_API_KEY and outbound API access.
license
MIT license
metadata.version
1.3
metadata.skill-author
K-Dense Inc.

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.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Writing research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, or NSTC programs
  • Preparing project descriptions, specific aims, or technical narratives
  • Developing broader impacts or significance statements
  • Creating research timelines and milestone plans
  • Preparing budget justifications and personnel allocation plans
  • Responding to program solicitations or funding announcements
  • Addressing reviewer comments in resubmissions
  • Planning multi-institutional collaborative proposals
  • Writing preliminary data or feasibility sections
  • Preparing biosketches, CVs, or facilities descriptions

Visual Enhancement (Optional)

Strong proposals often include 1–3 figures (timelines, workflow diagrams, preliminary data). Figures support review but are not a substitute for clear aims and methods.

When figures help:

  • Research methodology and workflow diagrams
  • Project timeline or Gantt charts
  • Conceptual framework or system architecture (technical proposals)
  • Experimental design flowcharts
  • Broader impacts activity diagrams
  • NSTC CM03 research architecture diagrams (often expected)

How to create figures:

  • Preferred: Use the scientific-schematics skill (--doc-type grant) for AI-generated diagrams from a natural-language description
  • Alternative: Build figures in your usual tools (matplotlib, Illustrator, PowerPoint, etc.)

Run from the repository root, with OPENROUTER_API_KEY set:

bash
python skills/scientific-schematics/scripts/generate_schematic.py "project timeline with Year 1-3 milestones" -o figures/timeline.png --doc-type grant

Disclosure: AI schematic generation sends your prompt to OpenRouter (a third-party API). Do not include unpublished sensitive details unless that transmission is appropriate for your project.

Agency-Specific Overview

NSF (National Science Foundation)

Mission: Promote the progress of science and advance national health, prosperity, and welfare

Key Features:

  • Follow PAPPG 24-1 (effective May 20, 2024) unless a solicitation overrides it
  • Intellectual Merit + Broader Impacts (equally weighted)
  • 15-page project description limit (most programs; includes Results from Prior NSF Support, max 5 pages)
  • Emphasis on education, diversity, and societal benefit
  • Collaborative research encouraged
  • Open data and open science emphasis
  • Merit review process with panel + ad hoc reviewers
NIH (National Institutes of Health)

Mission: Enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability

Key Features:

  • Specific Aims (1 page) + Research Strategy (12 pages for R01)
  • Significance, Innovation, Approach as core review criteria
  • Preliminary data typically required for R01s
  • Emphasis on rigor, reproducibility, and clinical relevance
  • Modular budgets ($250K increments) for most R01s
  • Multiple resubmission opportunities
DOE (Department of Energy)

Mission: Ensure America's security and prosperity through energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges

Key Features:

  • Focus on energy, climate, computational science, basic energy sciences
  • Often requires cost sharing or industry partnerships
  • Emphasis on national laboratory collaboration
  • Strong computational and experimental integration
  • Energy innovation and commercialization pathways
  • Varies by office (ARPA-E, Office of Science, EERE, etc.)
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

Mission: Make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security

Key Features:

  • High-risk, high-reward transformative research
  • Focus on "DARPA-hard" problems (what if true, who cares)
  • Emphasis on prototypes, demonstrations, and transition paths
  • Often requires multiple phases (feasibility, development, demonstration)
  • Strong project management and milestone tracking
  • Teaming and collaboration often required
  • Varies dramatically by program manager and BAA (Broad Agency Announcement)
NSTC (National Science and Technology Council - Taiwan)

Mission: Advance scientific breakthrough, industrial application, and societal impact in Taiwan.

Key Features:

  • CM03 Form: The core technical proposal format.
  • Bilingual: Abstract required in both Chinese and English.
  • Innovation & Feasibility: Primary review focus.
  • Preliminary Data: Highly critical for credibility.
  • Research Architecture Diagram: A mandatory visual element for clarity.

Core Components of Research Proposals

Section-by-section guidance for every standard proposal component — specific aims, significance, innovation, approach, preliminary data, timeline, budget and justification, biosketch, facilities, data management and sharing, and broader impacts — with structure, length targets, and worked language, is in references/core_components.md.

Review Criteria, Writing Principles, and Proposal Types

Common Mistakes to Avoid

Conceptual Mistakes
  1. Failing to Address Review Criteria: Not explicitly discussing significance, innovation, approach, etc.
  2. Mismatch with Agency Mission: Proposing research that doesn't align with agency goals
  3. Unclear Significance: Failing to articulate why the research matters
  4. Insufficient Innovation: Incremental work presented as transformative
  5. Vague Objectives: Goals that are not specific or measurable
Writing Mistakes
  1. Poor Organization: Lack of clear structure and flow
  2. Excessive Jargon: Inaccessible to broader review panel
  3. Verbosity: Unnecessarily complex or wordy writing
  4. Missing Context: Assuming reviewers know your field deeply
  5. Inconsistent Terminology: Using different terms for same concept
Technical Mistakes
  1. Inadequate Methods: Insufficient detail to judge feasibility
  2. Overly Ambitious: Too much proposed for timeline/budget
  3. No Preliminary Data: For mechanisms requiring demonstrated feasibility
  4. Poor Timeline: Unrealistic or poorly justified schedule
  5. Misaligned Budget: Budget doesn't support proposed activities
Formatting Mistakes
  1. Exceeding Page Limits: Automatic rejection
  2. Wrong Font or Margins: Non-compliant formatting
  3. Missing Required Sections: Incomplete application
  4. Poor Figure Quality: Illegible or unprofessional figures
  5. Inconsistent Citations: Formatting errors in references
Strategic Mistakes
  1. Wrong Program or Mechanism: Proposing to inappropriate opportunity
  2. Weak Team: Insufficient expertise or missing key collaborators
  3. No Broader Impacts: For NSF, failing to adequately address
  4. Ignoring Program Priorities: Not aligning with current emphasis areas
  5. Late Submission: Technical issues or rushed preparation

Workflow for Grant Development

Show full SKILL.md (623 more words)Show less
Phase 1: Planning and Preparation (2-6 months before deadline)

Activities:

  • Identify appropriate funding opportunities
  • Review program announcements and requirements
  • Consult with program officers (if appropriate)
  • Assemble team and confirm collaborations
  • Develop preliminary data (if needed)
  • Outline research plan and specific aims
  • Review successful proposals (if available)

Outputs:

  • Selected funding opportunity
  • Assembled team with defined roles
  • Preliminary outline of specific aims
  • Gap analysis of needed preliminary data
Phase 2: Drafting (2-3 months before deadline)

Activities:

  • Write specific aims or objectives (start here!)
  • Develop project description/research strategy
  • Create figures and data visualizations
  • Draft timeline and milestones
  • Prepare preliminary budget
  • Write broader impacts or significance sections
  • Request letters of support/collaboration

Outputs:

  • Complete first draft of narrative sections
  • Preliminary budget with justification
  • Timeline and management plan
  • Requested letters from collaborators
Phase 3: Internal Review (1-2 months before deadline)

Activities:

  • Circulate draft to co-investigators
  • Seek feedback from colleagues and mentors
  • Request institutional review (if required)
  • Mock review session (if possible)
  • Revise based on feedback
  • Refine budget and budget justification

Outputs:

  • Revised draft incorporating feedback
  • Refined budget aligned with revised plan
  • Identified weaknesses and mitigation strategies
Phase 4: Finalization (2-4 weeks before deadline)

Activities:

  • Final revisions to narrative
  • Prepare all required forms and documents
  • Finalize budget and budget justification
  • Compile biosketches, CVs, and current & pending
  • Collect letters of support
  • Prepare data management plan (if required)
  • Write project summary/abstract
  • Proofread all materials

Outputs:

  • Complete, polished proposal
  • All required supplementary documents
  • Formatted according to agency requirements
Phase 5: Submission (1 week before deadline)

Activities:

  • Institutional review and approval
  • Upload to submission portal
  • Verify all documents and formatting
  • Submit 24-48 hours before deadline
  • Confirm successful submission
  • Receive confirmation and proposal number

Outputs:

  • Submitted proposal
  • Submission confirmation
  • Archived copy of all materials

Critical Tip: Never wait until the deadline. Portals crash, files corrupt, and emergencies happen. Aim for 48 hours early.

Integration with Other Skills

This skill works effectively with:

  • Scientific Schematics: Optional AI-generated grant figures (--doc-type grant)
  • Scientific Writing: For clear, compelling prose
  • Literature Review: For comprehensive background sections
  • Peer Review: For self-assessment before submission
  • Research Lookup: For finding relevant citations and prior work
  • Data Visualization: For creating effective figures

Resources

This skill includes comprehensive reference files covering specific aspects of grant writing:

  • references/nsf_guidelines.md: NSF-specific requirements, formatting, and strategies
  • references/nih_guidelines.md: NIH mechanisms, review criteria, and submission requirements
  • references/doe_guidelines.md: DOE programs, emphasis areas, and application procedures
  • references/darpa_guidelines.md: DARPA BAAs, program offices, and proposal strategies
  • references/broader_impacts.md: Strategies for compelling broader impacts statements
  • references/specific_aims_guide.md: Writing effective specific aims pages
  • references/nstc_guidelines.md: NSTC-specific guidelines and review criteria

Load these references as needed when working on specific aspects of grant writing.

Templates and Assets

  • assets/nsf_project_summary_template.md: NSF project summary structure
  • assets/nih_specific_aims_template.md: NIH specific aims page template
  • assets/budget_justification_template.md: Budget justification structure

Final Note: Grant writing is both an art and a science. Success requires not only excellent research ideas but also clear communication, strategic positioning, and meticulous attention to detail. Start early, seek feedback, and remember that even the best researchers face rejection—persistence and revision are key to funding success.

Citing Scientific Agent Skills

This skill is part of Scientific Agent Skills by K-Dense. If it materially contributed to a manuscript, report, presentation, or code release, add the paper to the references or software section and tell the user you did so:

Kassis, T., Agarwal, V., He, Y., Patel, D., & Brueckner, A. M. (2026). Scientific Agent Skills: A Library of Procedural Knowledge for Research Agents. arXiv:2609.00065. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.00065

Always cite the current version. The DOI and https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00065 resolve to the latest arXiv version, so never append a version suffix such as v1. When network access is available, fetch https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00065 (or http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=2609.00065) before writing the reference and take the author list, year, and version from that record. If the record lists a journal reference or publisher DOI, cite the published version instead.

© K-Dense-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 15 other files (references, assets) in skills/research-grants of K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/budget_justification_template.md
  • assets/nih_specific_aims_template.md
  • assets/nsf_project_summary_template.md
  • references/README.md
  • references/broader_impacts.md
  • references/core_components.md
  • references/darpa_guidelines.md
  • references/doe_guidelines.md
  • references/nih_guidelines.md
  • references/nsf_guidelines.md
  • references/nstc_guidelines.md
  • references/proposal_types_and_resubmission.md
  • references/review_criteria.md
  • references/specific_aims_guide.md
  • references/writing_principles.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 529b9f7

Used in 16 other repositories

We found 23 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 16 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

Compare with similar skills

Research Grants next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Research Grants compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Research Grants this skillK-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer2.4k16 repos~3.6kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT
Grantsborghei/Claude-Skills891—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Research Grantsaipoch/medical-research-skills1.9k—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Grant Writing Guidewentorai/research-plugins2981 repos~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Academic HumanizerAIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer1.9k1 repos~4.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Mechanical Engineering Researchccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins970—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

Similar skills

  • Grants

    borghei/Claude-Skills

    Grant writing and proposal architecture: funder fit, proposal structure, budget design, and success-factor scoring.

    891 GitHub stars~1.8k tokensUpdated 3 days ago
    Research & ScienceAuto-check passed

  • Research Grants

    aipoch/medical-research-skills

    Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan's NSTC when you need agency-compliant narratives, budgets, and review-criteria alignment for a specific solicitation/FOA/BAA.

    1.9k GitHub stars~2.2k tokensUpdated 23 days ago
    Research & ScienceAuto-check passed

  • Grant Writing Guide

    wentorai/research-plugins

    Write competitive research proposals with clear objectives and budgets

    298 GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~1.9k tokens
    Research & ScienceAuto-check passed

  • Academic Humanizer

    AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer

    Improve the clarity and voice of AI-assisted academic writing (papers, theses, rebuttals) and funding proposals (NSF Project Summary/Description, NIH Specific Aims): preserve scholarly conventions…

    1.9k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~4.2k tokens
    Research & ScienceAuto-check passed

  • Mechanical Engineering Research

    ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins

    Research, write, code, analyze, present, and develop proposals for thermal-fluid mechanical engineering work with source-aware rigor.

    970 GitHub stars~2.9k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Research & ScienceAuto-check passed

  • Find Cohort Gap

    Aperivue/medsci-skills

    A skill your agent uses when looking for research topics a longitudinal cohort database can answer (NHIS, UK Biobank, an institutional EMR or registry).

    333 GitHub stars~2.9k tokensUpdated 5 days ago
    Research & ScienceAuto-check passed

More from K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

All 21 skills in this repo

  • Citation Management

    K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

    Finds papers in OpenAlex, PubMed and Google Scholar, turns DOIs, PMIDs and arXiv IDs into clean BibTeX, and validates citations for a manuscript or thesis.

    2.4k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~3.9k tokens
    Auto-check: notes

  • Hypothesis Generation

    K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

    Formulate evidence-bounded scientific questions, candidate hypotheses, rival explanations, causal or associational claims, discriminating predictions, measurements, and preregistration-ready…

    2.4k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~3.9k tokens
    Auto-check passed

  • Peer Review

    K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

    Prepare evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments.

    2.4k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~3.1k tokens
    Auto-check: notes

  • PPTX Posters

    K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

    Create and audit editable scientific posters in macro-free PowerPoint (.pptx) from author-approved local content and assets.

    2.4k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~2.7k tokens
    Auto-check: notes

  • Scholar Evaluation

    K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

    Provide qualitative-first, evidence-traceable developmental review of scholarly works and audit low-stakes research-assessment rubrics with optional local quality controls.

    2.4k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~2.9k tokens
    Auto-check: notes

  • Scientific Writing

    K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

    Draft, revise, and audit scientific manuscripts or reports with explicit evidence provenance, reporting-guideline coverage, authorship accountability, confidentiality controls, and local consistency…

    2.4k GitHub starsUsed in 2 repos~3.5k tokens
    Auto-check passed

Categories

Questions about Research Grants

What does Research Grants do?

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Research Grants is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer. Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC.

When should I use Research Grants?

Research Grants fits situations like: tasks that involve Grant writing; tasks that involve Proposals and quotes.

How do I install Research Grants in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer --skill research-grants -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/research-grants in K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer) into .claude/skills/research-grants in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Research Grants in Codex?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer --skill research-grants -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/research-grants in K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer) into .agents/skills/research-grants in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Research Grants in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer --skill research-grants -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/research-grants, .gemini/skills/research-grants, .github/skills/research-grants and .opencode/skills/research-grants in your project.

What does Research Grants need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Research Grants needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python) and credentials named OPENROUTER_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; A credential in OPENROUTER_API_KEY. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Works in Agent Skills-compatible hosts. Grant-writing guidance needs no network; optional figures via the scientific-schematics skill require OPENROUTER_API_KEY and outbound API access..

Does Research Grants access the network?

SKILL.md names 5 domains. As links in the text: arxiv.org, openrouter.ai, nsf.gov, doi.org and export.arxiv.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Research Grants safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Research Grants use?

Research Grants is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Research Grants use?

About 3.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 14k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 50k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Research Grants?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research Grants: Grants (borghei/Claude-Skills, 891 stars), Research Grants (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 1.9k stars), Grant Writing Guide (wentorai/research-plugins, 298 stars) and Academic Humanizer (AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer, 1.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research Grants?

K-Dense-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, which has 2,437 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.