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research-grants

Category: research-writing · License: MIT · Version: 1.3 Tags: grant writing, NIH, NSF, research proposals, funding

When to use it

Guides writing of competitive research grant proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Covers agency-specific formatting and review criteria, specific aims, project descriptions, significance and innovation narratives, broader impacts, budgets and justifications, timelines, biosketches, and the NSTC CM03 form. Use when drafting a proposal for one of these agencies. Use when writing specific aims or broader impacts statements. Use when preparing a budget justification or milestone plan. Use when responding to a solicitation, BAA, or reviewer comments in a resubmission. Use when checking a draft against page limits and submission requirements. For general manuscript writing, use a scientific writing skill instead.

Example requests

Ask your agent in plain language, for example:
  • “Help me write the Specific Aims page for my R01 on gut microbiome modulation of anti-PD1 response.”
  • “I’m submitting to NSF CBET and my draft is in proposal_v3.docx. The Project Description is 17 pages and my Broader Impacts section is just one paragraph about ‘training students’. How do I fix this?”
  • “My lab got a summary statement with a score of 38 on our first NIH submission and I need to turn it around for the next cycle. Reviewers said the approach was underpowered and the innovation was incremental. What’s my plan?”

Install

In Claude Code you can also add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills and install the whole research-writing category with /plugin install research-writing@research-agent-skills.

Full playbook

Read SKILL.md for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.
Last modified on October 19, 2026