research-grants

The Research Grant Writing skill is a comprehensive toolkit designed for academic researchers, principal investigators, and lab managers. It automates the preparation of highly competitive funding proposals for major federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DOE), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). By integrating agency-specific logic, the tool ensures that every narrative, from Significance Statements to Broader Impacts, aligns with the distinct mission priorities and review criteria of the target organization.

• Agency-specific template guidance for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and NSTC, covering formatting, page limits, and mandatory document structures.

• Strategic narrative development including Specific Aims, Intellectual Merit, Innovation narratives, and technical feasibility studies.

• Mandatory integration with the scientific-schematics skill to generate publication-quality figures, Gantt charts, project timelines, and conceptual framework diagrams.

• Detailed budget preparation support, including personnel allocation, budget justifications, and multi-institutional collaborative planning.

• Compliance and submission readiness, helping researchers address reviewer comments in resubmissions and ensuring adherence to solicitation requirements.

• Users should provide initial draft concepts, project objectives, and preliminary data metrics to generate tailored research narratives.

• Outputs are typically organized as LaTeX or Markdown documents, requiring iterative refinement for specific grant solicitation guidelines (BAAs or RFPs).

• Users are strongly encouraged to utilize the required Python-based schematic generation tools to enhance proposal visual impact, as non-visual proposals are flagged as less competitive.

• This tool is designed to work within local research workspaces and can be scaled for heavy cloud processing using external compute resources when managing large-scale, multi-institutional applications.