Agent skill · research science · mvanhorn
pp-grants
Find open US federal research funding and benchmark award sizes — Grants.gov open opportunities plus awarded NIH RePORTER and NSF grants, keyless. Trigger phrases: `open research grants`, `grants.gov search`, `NIH funding for`, `NSF awards for`, `grant deadline before`, `use grants`, `run grants`.
Why this skill is useful
Provides niche commands for accessing and benchmarking federal research funding data that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires grants-pp-cli installed locally. About 3k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Research Grants Finder — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the grants-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify with the version subcommand. 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. No API key is required — all three upstream APIs (Grants.gov Search2, NIH RePORTER, NSF Awards) are public and keyless. Note: this CLI uses the Go standard-library flag package rather than cobra, so its usage examples below are shown as plain text. Run the help subcommand for the authoritative flag list; behavior is identical to the recipes shown. What it does search — open federal funding opportunities from Grants.gov (NIH, NSF, and every other federal agency). nih — awarded NIH projects from RePORTER, sorted by award size, to benchmark how much a topic typically gets. Restricted to award types an external applicant can compete for; include-centers adds center, program and consortium awards, which are one to two orders of magnitude larger. A median accompanies the listing, because sorting by size shows the largest awards rather than representative ones. nsf — awarded NSF grants. doctor — live health check of all three upstream APIs. Every command accepts a json flag for machine-readable output, and flags may appear anywhere on the command line. Recipes Find open opportunities, filter by deadline, agency, award size, or eligibility: Notes on the search filters: The deadline filter (closing-before, format YYYY-MM-DD) is applied client-side within the fetched page; a stderr warning appears when the page was full and the list may be truncated — raise the rows value for fuller coverage. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/grants