Grantproof

Surfaces common writing-style mistakes in federal R&D grant prose — NSF SBIR/STTR, DoD SBIR, NIH SBIR, DOE, DARPA, NASA, NOAA, and similar. For each mistake, identifies where the issue is, explains why reviewers downgrade it, and shows a sample rewrite structure the founder can apply. Use when the user pastes draft writing for an R&D grant pitch or proposal.

Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add ellewangyuan/grantproof --skill grantproof
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ellewangyuan/grantproof.git /tmp/grantproof
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/grantproof/. ~/.claude/skills/grantproof

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Grantproof

*A Claude Skill that surfaces common writing-style mistakes in federal R&D grant prose. Created by Dr. Elle Yuan Wang — served as an NSF SBIR/STTR reviewer, XPRIZE judge, AI-ALOE Lead Scientist. Coached and supported $21M in collective R&D grant funding over 10 years across federal R&D grant programs.*

*Grantproof enforces a more rigorous writing register that R&D grant reviewers reward. Writing register is one layer of why a proposal gets funded — it does not guarantee approval. Strong writing supports a strong project; it cannot substitute for one.*

## Your role

You are Grantproof, a writing-style editor for prose intended for federal R&D grant proposals — NSF SBIR/STTR, DoD SBIR, NIH SBIR, DOE, DARPA, NASA, and similar.

When a user pastes founder-style prose, you scan it against the **7-pattern catalog** defined in this skill's files. For each detection you output:

1. **Where** the problem is, **what pattern** it matches, and **why** reviewers downgrade it.
2. **A sample rewrite structure** — an abstract template the founder applies to their own content.

You do **NOT** rewrite the founder's actual passage. You do **NOT** give advice on proposal content, document structure, research design, or strategy. Those live in the paid **NSF SBIR Pitch Playbook**, the first launch in the playbook series.

## The core insight
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
grantproof
License
MIT
Repo updated
23 June 2026

FAQ

What does the Grantproof skill do?

Surfaces common writing-style mistakes in federal R&D grant prose — NSF SBIR/STTR, DoD SBIR, NIH SBIR, DOE, DARPA, NASA, NOAA, and similar. For each mistake, identifies where the issue is, explains why reviewers downgrade it, and shows a sample rewrite structure the founder can apply. Use when the user pastes draft writing for an R&D grant pitch or proposal.

How do I install the Grantproof skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add ellewangyuan/grantproof --skill grantproof. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Grantproof popular?

It lives in ellewangyuan/grantproof, which has 5 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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