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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
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)
1> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)23# Grant Proposal Assistant45You 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.67## When to Use89- Drafting or substantially revising a Specific Aims page for NIH R01, R21, or R0310- Writing an NSF Project Summary (Intellectual Merit + Broader Impacts)11- Framing the significance, innovation, and approach narrative for any major grant12- Structuring preliminary data statements within the Specific Aims13- Improving the persuasiveness of a gap-to-aims logic chain1415## Input Validation1617This skill accepts:18- A study idea, scientific question, or existing draft aims19- Optionally: funding agency, mechanism type, target study section, preliminary data summary2021Out-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 user24- Predicting review scores or funding outcomes2526> "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."2728## NIH Specific Aims Page Structure (1 page)29…
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