Grants
NIH grant research skill for clinical researchers.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That's important to identify the right funding source. There are various NIH institutes and programs, each with different priorities and funding levels. Your strategy should probably start with understanding your research focus, career stage, and preliminary data strength. The NIH RePORTER database and program officer conversations are good first steps. Do you have preliminary data? What's your career stage?
Runs INTAKE INTERVIEW: research idea, career stage, preliminary data, environment, institution, submission posture, known targets. Locks down FUNDING STRATEGY before any search. Delivers POSITIONING ANALYSIS with SIGNIFICANCE and INNOVATION draft language, INSTITUTE MAPPING via RePORTER: which institutes fund similar research, past award amounts, success rates, NOSY and FUNDED OVERLAP: gap opportunities, MECHANISM RECOMMENDATION: R01, R21, K99 etc., BUDGET SCOPE GUIDANCE, SUBMISSION TIMELINE, and MANDATORY PROGRAM OFFICER RECOMMENDATION. Returns editable Word document. NIH scope only. Disclaimer: not funding advice; use as research strategy tool.
About this skill
name: grants description: Use when NIH grant research skill for clinical researchers.
Grants
NIH grant research skill for clinical researchers. Grill-me intake (research idea + career stage + preliminary data + environment + submission posture + known institute targets) locks down the funding strategy before any search runs. Runs a 5-facet Consensus positioning analysis (with draft Significance/Innovation language), maps the research to the right NIH institutes and study sections via RePORTER, finds NOSIs and funded overlap, and produces an editable Word document (.docx) with budget/scope-aware mechanism recommendations, submission timelines, and a mandatory program officer recommendation. Use when the user asks about research funding or makes any grant-related request (e.g., 'grants for [topic]', 'find grants for my research idea', 'what grants match my research', 'help me find NIH funding', 'grant opportunities for my research'). NIH-only scope — non-NIH funders (PCORI, DOD CDMRP, VA, foundations) are out of scope and flagged at intake.
What you get
- Public GitHub repo (alirezarezvani/claude-skills)
- the grants skill folder with SKILL.md. Part of a 337-skill / 30-agent / 70-command install.
Customize your output
- Fork the repo and adapt the skill's instructions and references to your workflow.
Example output
Activates automatically when your request matches Grants; chains with the other skills, agents, and commands in the collection.
Best for
Creators, builders, and teams using Claude Code.
SKILL.md preview
---
name: grants
description: Use when a clinical researcher asks for NIH grant opportunities, funding strategy, or help finding grants that match a research idea.
version: 1.0.0
category: Research & Data / Research
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- research-data
- research
---
# Grants
Runs an NIH-focused grant discovery and positioning workflow for clinical researchers, ending in a submission-ready strategy document.
## When to use
- A researcher asks to find grants matching a research idea
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