Grant Finder (Superpowers-Wrapper)

Wrap-skill around research-skills/dao-grant-finder. Use when the user signals funding planning, either in parallel to a current project or to spin off a follow-up.

Announce at start: "Using grant-finder to map funding landscape for <topic>."

When to use

• User asks for "funding for X", "DFG proposal", "which foundation fits", "grant for Y" (DE / EN)
• finishing-a-research-project → follow-up question: is there a next grant?
• Planning phase before a long-running project (to align scope with funder expectations)

NOT for: single-grant lookup ("when's the next DFG deadline?" → web search), writing the actual proposal (that is drafting-manuscript with output target = grant-proposal).

Checklist

1. Confirm research topic and current funding state with user
2. Identify discipline buckets — Theology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology, Ancient History, DH — determines panel mapping
3. Dispatch literature-scout in grant-mode (optional): identify recent funded projects in adjacent topics
4. Load curated foundation database from research-skills/dao-grant-finder/foundations.yaml
5. Match topic → funders using the database + DFG-Fachkollegien mapping (fachkollegien.yaml)
6. Verify deadlines live — web-search current cycles for top-5 matches
7. Produce grant-strategy document (11 sections per dao-grant-finder template)
8. Produce grant-bibliography.bib — precedent-setting funded works and key methodological references
9. Save outputs to output/grants/<YYYY-MM-DD-topic>/
10. Summarize top-3 recommendations to user with live deadlines

Process Flow

digraph grants {
    "Confirm topic + funding state" [shape=box];
    "Discipline buckets" [shape=box];
    "Literature scout (optional)" [shape=box];
    "Load foundations DB" [shape=box];
    "Match topic to funders" [shape=box];
    "Verify deadlines live" [shape=box];
    "Produce strategy doc" [shape=box];
    "Produce grant BibTeX" [shape=box];
    "Save to output/grants/" [shape=box];
    "Top-3 summary to user" [shape=doublecircle];

    "Confirm topic + funding state" -> "Discipline buckets";
    "Discipline buckets" -> "Literature scout (optional)";
    "Literature scout (optional)" -> "Load foundations DB";
    "Load foundations DB" -> "Match topic to funders";
    "Match topic to funders" -> "Verify deadlines live";
    "Verify deadlines live" -> "Produce strategy doc";
    "Produce strategy doc" -> "Produce grant BibTeX";
    "Produce grant BibTeX" -> "Save to output/grants/";
    "Save to output/grants/" -> "Top-3 summary to user";
}

Reference Content

research-skills/dao-grant-finder/:

• SKILL.md — full 11-section template
• foundations.yaml — curated funder database (DFG, ERC, VolkswagenStiftung, Gerda Henkel, Fritz Thyssen, bilateral German–Israeli programmes, etc.)
• fachkollegien.yaml — DFG panel mapping
• data_sources.md — funder API documentation
• templates/ — DFG Forschungsstand skeleton, cover letter templates

Output Structure

output/grants/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>/
├── forschungsstand.md          # DFG-style 11-section document
├── funder-ranking.md           # top-10 funders with fit score + live deadlines
├── panel-recommendation.md     # DFG Fachkollegium recommendation with rationale
├── grant-bibliography.bib      # precedent funded works + methodological refs
└── README.md                   # summary + next steps

Red Flags

Key Principles

• Panel-match before funder-match — DFG Fachkollegium or ERC panel first
• Live deadlines — static info is unreliable
• Top-3, not top-1 — alternatives for career context
• Precedent bibliography — shows familiarity with the funding landscape
• Parallel to the running project — the grant story is fresh when the research is fresh