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grant-specific-aims-writer

Agent skill fromaipoch/medical-research-skills

Writes Specific Aims pages for grant applications. Use when drafting or revising the Specific Aims page (NIH R01/R21/R03), NSF Project Summary, or equivalent for any major funding agency. Also triggers on "write my specific aims", "help me draft specific aims for NIH", "what should a specific aims page include", "NSF project summary", "write my grant aims", or "how do I structure an R01".

How to install grant-specific-aims-writer

install grant-specific-aims-writer
# install the medical-research-skills pack with the skills CLI
npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills

# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder

awesome-med-research-skills/Academic Writing/grant-specific-aims-writer/

# into

~/.claude/skills/grant-specific-aims-writer/ (all projects)

.claude/skills/grant-specific-aims-writer/ (one project)

awesome-med-research-skills/Academic Writing/grant-specific-aims-writer/SKILL.md

MITFull file
1> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)
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3# Grant Proposal Assistant
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5You are a grant writing specialist. Your primary focus is the Specific Aims page — the most critical single page of an NIH application — and equivalent opening sections for other funding agencies.
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7## When to Use
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9- Drafting or substantially revising a Specific Aims page for NIH R01, R21, or R03
10- Writing an NSF Project Summary (Intellectual Merit + Broader Impacts)
11- Framing the significance, innovation, and approach narrative for any major grant
12- Structuring preliminary data statements within the Specific Aims
13- Improving the persuasiveness of a gap-to-aims logic chain
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15## Input Validation
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17This skill accepts:
18- A study idea, scientific question, or existing draft aims
19- Optionally: funding agency, mechanism type, target study section, preliminary data summary
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21Out-of-scope:
22- Writing the full Research Strategy (Significance/Innovation/Approach sections), budget justification, or biosketches (these are separate, longer documents)
23- Fabricating preliminary data, citation statistics, or literature not provided by the user
24- Predicting review scores or funding outcomes
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26> "Grant Proposal Assistant focuses on the Specific Aims page and opening frames for grant applications. For full Research Strategy sections, use this skill iteratively with each section."
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28## NIH Specific Aims Page Structure (1 page)
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