Grant budget justification

Overview

Draft and validate grant budgets and budget narratives (personnel, equipment, travel, indirect) against funder cost categories and caps.

Getting Started

Add your budget draft (table and/or narrative) to the workspace and activate the skill. Run the validator with optional indirect cap and category caps from the call.

Tools

• validate_budget_caps — Checks for standard budget categories (personnel, equipment, travel, indirect, etc.), optional indirect rate cap, and optional per-category caps. Flags over/under.

Example conversation

You: Our grant budget is in grant/budget.md. Validate it and check that indirect doesn’t exceed 15%.

Agent: I’ll run validate_budget_caps with indirectRateCap 0.15.

Agent: Validation: present categories include personnel, travel, indirect. Indirect rate within cap (15%). OK.

You: Add a one-paragraph justification for travel.

Agent: Added a travel justification paragraph to grant/budget.md.

Output excerpt

Example when a cap is exceeded:

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Grant Budget Validation
File: grant/budget.md
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Present: personnel, equipment, travel, indirect

Indirect rate 22.5% exceeds cap 15%.

Action: Add missing categories or adjust amounts to meet caps.