Grant narrative — funder alignment

Overview

Draft grant narratives (need, approach, outcomes, evaluation) aligned to funder guidelines (e.g. EU Horizon, NSF). Validates required sections, word limits, and forbidden/required keywords.

Getting Started

Add your draft narrative (or outline) to the workspace and activate the Grant narrative — funder alignment skill. Use the funder reference (e.g. EU Horizon) for section names and word limits, then run validation.

Tools

• validate_funder_requirements — Checks required sections (need, approach, outcomes, evaluation), optional word limits per section, and optional required/forbidden keywords. Use after drafting; pass maxWordsPerSection or keywords from the call if available.

Example conversation

You: Our EU Horizon narrative is in grant/narrative.md. Can you validate it for the required sections and flag if the need section is over 1500 words?

Agent: I’ll run the validator with a 1500-word cap on the need section.

Agent: Validation result: need 1420 words — OK; approach 890 words — OK; outcomes 310 words — OK; evaluation 180 words — OK. All required sections present and within limits.

You: The call says we must use the phrase “open science”. Add it to the narrative and re-check.

Agent: I’ve added a sentence in the approach section mentioning our commitment to open science and re-ran the validator with requiredKeywords: [“open science”]. Result: OK.

Output excerpt

Example validation output when a section is missing or over limit:

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Grant Narrative — Funder Requirements Validation
File: grant/narrative.md
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need: 2100 words (max 1500) — trim
approach: 890 words — OK
outcomes: 45 words — OK
evaluation: Missing or too short: evaluation (min 20 words)

Action: Add or adjust sections and keywords as above.