Chinese Grant Writer Skills
Four skills for NSFC grant proposals in Chinese: aims and content, methods and route, a data-backed rationale, a literature review
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Why this level
- The search scripts call OpenAlex, Crossref, Exa and Google Scholar and pass them your research topics
- Access keys sit in a plain `search/.env` file next to the skill
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How we reviewExtended accessThe tool runs code or makes network calls and only reads external data.
- The search scripts call OpenAlex, Crossref, Exa and Google Scholar and pass them your research topics
- Access keys sit in a plain `search/.env` file next to the skill
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What it does
Four skills help write grant proposals for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the National Social Science Fund (NSSFC) and provincial funds. The rules come from successful proposals in management sciences. Each skill has its own knowledge base, style guide, anti-pattern list and validation rules. `fund-research-content-writer` designs aims, content and key scientific questions and keeps them in a closed chain. `fund-technical-route-writer` shapes methods, the technical route and novelty and draws the route diagram in Mermaid. `fund-background-writer` writes the rationale and significance backed by policy documents and statistics found through search, and scrubs boastful phrasing such as "first ever" and "fills a gap". `fund-literature-review-writer` builds a literature review as an argument for the topic, organized by the research content. The skills are meant to run in order: content, method and route, rationale, review. Each first returns an outline for editing and only then the full text. The review pulls papers from OpenAlex, Crossref, Exa and Google Scholar, filters journals by a priority list and a blacklist, and outputs a BibTeX bibliography for Zotero.
Who it is for. Researchers and university staff in China who prepare NSFC and provincial fund proposals in Chinese and work in Claude Code, Codex or another agent with skills.
Good fit when
- You need to shape the aims, content and key scientific questions of an NSFC proposal so they agree with one another
- The method and technical route exist as a draft and must be brought to academic form with a Mermaid diagram
- The rationale must rest on current documents and statistics with named sources
- A literature review is needed as an argument for the topic, with critical assessments and a BibTeX file for Zotero
- The proposal targets another project type (general, key, youth, provincial): the skill adjusts the number of items and the length
Not a fit when
- You need the text of a whole proposal in one request: the skills go chapter by chapter and each takes the previous one's output as input
- Search must cover Chinese journals: automatic search covers English-language sources only, and CNKI is not supported
- The proposal goes to a funder outside China: the rules and examples come from NSFC, NSSFC and provincial funds
- You have no Exa key and no email for OpenAlex: without them the literature review cannot collect papers
Example request
Draft the aims, content and key scientific questions of a general-type NSFC proposal on data-driven supply chain management, outline firstLimitations
- Literature search covers English-language papers only, so Chinese sources (CNKI) must be added by hand.
- Search needs `EXA_API_KEY` and an email for OpenAlex in `search/.env`, and the sources rate-limit requests.
- The skill works best with a list of papers and abstracts from you: automatic coverage is limited.
- Your own material is the input of each skill: the less you give, the more the agent fills in. Input tables live in `references/info_form.md`.
How to disable. Delete the four `fund-*` skill folders from the agent's skills directory. The `search/.env` file with keys sits next to the literature review skill and goes away with the `fund-literature-review-writer` folder.
FAQ
In what order should I run the skills?
First `fund-research-content-writer`, because it sets the aims, content and scientific questions. Then `fund-technical-route-writer`, `fund-background-writer` and finally `fund-literature-review-writer`: the rationale needs the method and route, and the review needs the whole context.
Does the skill search Chinese-language journals?
No. The built-in search runs on OpenAlex, Crossref, Exa and Google Scholar and covers English-language papers only. Add Chinese sources such as CNKI yourself as a list.
Which project types do the skills fit?
By default, NSFC general projects. Key, youth and provincial projects are supported: the project type changes the number of items and the text length.
Does the skill draw the technical route diagram?
Yes. `fund-technical-route-writer` produces the methods, the route text and a Mermaid diagram aligned with the three-level content structure.
Do all four skills need keys?
Only the literature review needs keys (`EXA_API_KEY` and an email for OpenAlex). The other skills need no keys of their own, but `fund-background-writer` needs the agent to have network access for searching documents and statistics.
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Comparison with similar tools
Cards that share the main search query, and how they differ.
| Tool | Official | Repository stars | Main difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Grant Writer Skills (this card) | no | 503 | |
| Academic Research Skills | no | 56,682 | walks through research, a paper, peer review and citation checks step by step, with no grant proposals |
| Research Paper Writing | no | 8,329 | writes and edits ML, CV and NLP research papers and does not cover grant proposals |
README in short
The README lists the four skills and shows a diagram of the run order with the reasoning behind it. Each skill gets its features, inputs and outputs. Next come warnings about literature search, the `search/.env` setup, the folder layout, usage tips and environment requirements.
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Original SKILL.md
--- name: "fund-research-content-writer" description: "NSFC研究方案写作助手（研究目标-研究内容-关键科学问题）。当用户需要撰写基金申请书的研究内容、拆解研究专题、凝练科学问题时触发。默认面上项目，支持重点/青年/省基金。" --- # NSFC 研究方案写作助手 本技能基于16本历史成功申请书及参考材料提取的研究设计逻辑和章节组织逻辑，帮助用户完成 NSFC 申请书「研究目标—研究内容—关键科学问题」的写作。默认按面上项目规范，用户指定其他类型时自动微调。 ## 核心原则 1. **研究设计逻辑优先**：优先保证研究逻辑的严谨性，而非追求复杂表述或华丽措辞 2. **科学问题驱动**：体现"科学问题驱动"而非"工程实现导向" 3. **逻辑闭环**：研究目标→研究内容→关键科学问题必须形成完整闭环 4. **禁止迁移**：不将历史本子的具体研究内容、研究对象、数据来源和结论迁移到新项目 ## 知识库 本技能依赖以下知识库文件（位于 `knowledge_base/` 目录）： - `research_content_style_guide.md`：写作风格指南（结构规范、风格规范、论证功能库、字数规范） - `research_logic_patterns.md`：逻辑范式（目标展开逻辑、内容拆解逻辑、科学问题凝练逻辑、递进逻辑、闭环验证） ## 触发条件 当用户出现以下任一情况时触发本技能： - 需要撰写 NSFC 申请书的研究目标、研究内容或关键科学问题 - 需要进行研究内容拆解 - 需要凝练关键科学问题 - 提到"研究内容""研究目标""科学问题""专题""子研究"等关键词 ## 工作流程 ### Phase 1：信息收集 读取 `references/info_form.md`，收集用户提供的以下信息（用户可能只提供部分，不需要全部）： 1. 研究主题 2. 项目类型（选填，默认面上项目：面上/重点/青年/省基金） 3. 研究内容框架（如有）