Playbook Scientific Research Grant Cycle

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name: playbook-scientific-research-grant-cycle
description: "Reviewed proposal narrative aligned aims-to-budget submitted stress-free."
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# Playbook: Survive a grant cycle

> Reviewed proposal narrative aligned aims-to-budget submitted stress-free.

**Track:** 🗺️ Scientific Research · **Domain:** Journey Playbooks · **Level:** journey · **~75 min**

**Who this is for:** Researchers, PhD Students, Postdocs, Research Software Engineers

## When to Use This Skill

Reviewed proposal narrative aligned aims-to-budget submitted stress-free.
Use it whenever a matching task appears in conversation — the agent loads these instructions on demand.

## Journey Steps

1. Step 1 — Structure grant proposals reviewers score highly: start with "Frame central question as one sentence a non-specialist grasps"
2. Step 2 — Keep lab notebooks worth citing: start with "Entry per session: goal, exact methods/versions, raw observations"
3. How it fits together: Preliminary data leads. Internal review two weeks before deadline is non-negotiable.

### Referenced Skills

- `publication-grants-grant-proposal-narrative`
- `reproducibility-electronic-lab-notebook`

## Commands

**Install all referenced skills**
```bash
npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill publication-grants-grant-proposal-narrative && npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill reproducibility-electronic-lab-notebook
```

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