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Find open US federal research funding and benchmark award sizes — Grants.gov open opportunities plus awarded NIH RePORTER and NSF grants, keyless.
Install Pp Grants
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-grants -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-grants --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-skills/pp-grants .claude/skills/pp-grants && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "pp-grants" agent skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-grants into .claude/skills/pp-grants/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pp-grants", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-grantsType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-grants -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-grants --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-skills/pp-grants .agents/skills/pp-grants && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "pp-grants" agent skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-grants into .agents/skills/pp-grants/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pp-grants", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-grants -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-grants --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-skills/pp-grants .cursor/skills/pp-grants && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "pp-grants" agent skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-grants into .cursor/skills/pp-grants/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pp-grants", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git --path cli-skills/pp-grants--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-grants -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-grants --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-skills/pp-grants .gemini/skills/pp-grants && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pp-grants" agent skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-grants into .gemini/skills/pp-grants/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pp-grants", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-grantsInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-grants -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-skills/pp-grants .github/skills/pp-grants && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pp-grants" agent skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-grants into .github/skills/pp-grants/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pp-grants", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-grants -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install mvanhorn/printing-press-library pp-grants --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-skills/pp-grants .opencode/skills/pp-grants && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pp-grants" agent skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-grants into .opencode/skills/pp-grants/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pp-grants", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
pp-grants- GitHub stars
- 2.1k
- Token cost
- ~1.5k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 611 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 506
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
Find open US federal research funding and benchmark award sizes — Grants.gov open opportunities plus awarded NIH RePORTER and NSF grants, keyless.
- Works in 3 steps: Install via the Printing Press… → Verify with the version subcommand. → Ensure the reported install directory is…
- Phrases: open research grants
- SKILL.md covers Prerequisites: Install the CLI, What it does, Recipes and Notes for agents
- Calls npx
What it does
Pp Grants is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library. Find open US federal research funding and benchmark award sizes — Grants.gov open opportunities plus awarded NIH RePORTER and NSF grants, keyless. Trigger phrases: open research grants, grants.gov search, NIH funding for, NSF awards for, grant deadline before, use grants, run grants.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Grant writing. The repository describes itself as: Official library of CLIs generated by the CLI Printing Press. Endorsed, tested, and community-contributed. The licence is Apache-2.0.
When your agent uses it
- Phrases: open research grants
- Grants.gov search
- NIH funding for
- Grant deadline before
Example prompts
- “/pp-grants”
Requirements
- Node.js
- Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Bash
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and…
- Verify with the version subcommand.
- Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 76de244. 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:
ReadBash
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
npx
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Pp Grants loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 611 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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, 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 mvanhorn/printing-press-library at commit 76de244, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© mvanhorn). 611 words, ~1,477 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/pp-grants/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- pp-grants
- description
- Find open US federal research funding and benchmark award sizes — Grants.gov open opportunities plus awarded NIH RePORTER and NSF grants, keyless. Trigger phrases: `open research grants`, `grants.gov search`, `NIH funding for`, `NSF awards for`, `grant deadline before`, `use grants`, `run grants`.
- allowed-tools
- Read, Bash
- author
- laci141
- license
- Apache-2.0
- argument-hint
- search|nih|nsf|doctor <keyword> [flags]
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT.
This file is a verbatim mirror of library/health/grants/SKILL.md,
regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are
silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead.
See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". -->Research Grants Finder — Printing Press CLI
Prerequisites: Install the CLI
This skill drives the grants-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:
- Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to
$HOME/.local/binon macOS/Linux and%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\binon Windows:
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install grants --cli-only- Verify with the
versionsubcommand. - Ensure the reported install directory is on
$PATHfor the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.
No API key is required — all three upstream APIs (Grants.gov Search2, NIH RePORTER, NSF Awards) are public and keyless.
Note: this CLI uses the Go standard-library
flagpackage rather than cobra, so its usage examples below are shown as plain text. Run thehelpsubcommand for the authoritative flag list; behavior is identical to the recipes shown.
What it does
search— open federal funding opportunities from Grants.gov (NIH, NSF, and every other federal agency).nih— awarded NIH projects from RePORTER, sorted by award size, to benchmark how much a topic typically gets. Restricted to award types an external applicant can compete for;include-centersadds center, program and consortium awards, which are one to two orders of magnitude larger. A median accompanies the listing, because sorting by size shows the largest awards rather than representative ones.nsf— awarded NSF grants.doctor— live health check of all three upstream APIs.
Every command accepts a json flag for machine-readable output, and flags may appear anywhere on the command line.
Recipes
Find open opportunities, filter by deadline, agency, award size, or eligibility:
grants-pp-cli search "cancer imaging"
grants-pp-cli search "cancer imaging" --closing-before 2026-12-31 --rows 50
grants-pp-cli search cancer --agency HHS-NIH11 --rows 10
grants-pp-cli search microbiome --details
grants-pp-cli search microbiome --min-award 500000
grants-pp-cli search microbiome --eligibility "small business"Notes on the search filters:
- The deadline filter (
closing-before, format YYYY-MM-DD) is applied client-side within the fetched page; a stderr warning appears when the page was full and the list may be truncated — raise therowsvalue for fuller coverage. - The agency filter takes a plain string agency code such as HHS-NIH11 or NSF.
- The minimum-award filter uses awardCeiling with an estimatedFunding fallback, because Grants.gov often reports a zero ceiling; estimated values are labelled in the output.
- The award and eligibility filters fetch per-opportunity details, so they are slower.
Benchmark awarded funding for a topic:
Show full SKILL.md (260 more words)Show less
grants-pp-cli nih "gut microbiome" --year 2025 --min-amount 1000000
grants-pp-cli nih "gut microbiome" --year 2025 --include-centers
grants-pp-cli nsf "quantum computing" --rows 25 --min-amount 500000Notes on the NIH benchmark:
- Results cover research project grants, high-risk awards and career transition awards — the types an individual investigator applies for. Procurement contracts and NIH intramural projects are excluded: neither is open to an outside applicant, and both are large enough to dominate a size-sorted list.
include-centerswidens the search to center, program and consortium awards. These are competable but fund the running of a research center rather than a single research idea, and they are one to two orders of magnitude larger.- The listing is sorted by award size, so it shows the largest awards. Read the median line beneath it for what a typical award actually looks like — the two routinely differ by a factor of five or more.
- The keyword is matched against project title and abstract only. RePORTER also indexes a machine-generated concept tag list, but those tags are attached independently of a project's subject and match facility and administrative awards.
JSON output for scripting, and a health check before a session:
grants-pp-cli search cancer --rows 5 --json
grants-pp-cli nih cancer --json
grants-pp-cli doctorThe nih JSON payload carries a typical_award object alongside the projects, holding the median, the bracket it was located in, and the population it describes.
Notes for agents
- NIH/NSF results are awarded (historical) grants; open calls come only from the
searchcommand. - NSF results are pooled across several pages, deduplicated by title, matched on word stems and ranked with title hits first — a single upstream page is neither relevance-ordered nor complete.
- Grants.gov dates in results are MM/DD/YYYY; the deadline filter takes YYYY-MM-DD.
- Exit codes: 0 success, 1 upstream/API error, 2 usage error.
© mvanhorn, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in cli-skills/pp-grants of mvanhorn/printing-press-library.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 76de244
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Questions about Pp Grants
What does Pp Grants do?
Find open US federal research funding and benchmark award sizes — Grants.gov open opportunities plus awarded NIH RePORTER and NSF grants, keyless. Pp Grants is an agent skill from mvanhorn/printing-press-library.gov open opportunities plus awarded NIH RePORTER and NSF grants, keyless.
When should I use Pp Grants?
Pp Grants fits situations like: phrases: open research grants; grants.gov search; NIH funding for; grant deadline before.
How do I install Pp Grants in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-grants -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (cli-skills/pp-grants in mvanhorn/printing-press-library) into .claude/skills/pp-grants in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Pp Grants in Codex?
Run `npx skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-grants -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (cli-skills/pp-grants in mvanhorn/printing-press-library) into .agents/skills/pp-grants in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Pp 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 mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-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/pp-grants, .gemini/skills/pp-grants, .github/skills/pp-grants and .opencode/skills/pp-grants in your project.
What does Pp Grants need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Pp Grants needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npx). Our summary lists: Node.js. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Bash.
Does Pp Grants access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Pp 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 Pp Grants use?
Pp Grants is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Pp Grants use?
About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Pp Grants?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pp Grants: Scientific Venue Templates (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars), Academic Humanizer (AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer, 1.9k stars), NSFC Literature Review Writer (HuiyuLi-2000/Chinese-Grant-Writer-Skills, 434 stars) and NSFC Grant Rationale Writer (huangwb8/ChineseResearchLaTeX, 2.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Pp Grants?
mvanhorn (a GitHub user) maintains it in mvanhorn/printing-press-library, which has 2,056 GitHub stars. The repository holds 506 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.
Source: mvanhorn/printing-press-library on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.