Resubmission Agent Skill

Prepare a grant resubmission or revision after review — decode the summary statement/reviews, plan a point-by-point response, write the…

Context cost
1.7k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 6.7 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Prepare a grant resubmission or revision after review — decode the summary statement/reviews, plan a point-by-point response, write the Introduction to Resubmission, and revise sections to address critiques. Use whenever the user has received reviews, a summary statement, pink sheets, scores, or panel feedback and wants to interpret them, respond, revise, or resubmit (NIH A1, NSF resubmission, or a not-funded proposal being reworked).

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

productivity

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md6.7 kB · preview
--- name: grant-resubmission ---
6# Resubmission
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8Most funded grants are resubmissions. The task is not to defend the original — it is to demonstrate responsiveness while genuinely strengthening the science. Reviewers of a resubmission look first at whether the concerns were taken seriously; but the panel is not guaranteed to be the same people, so the target is a better application overall, not a reply brief addressed to three individuals.
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10Read _agent/project-config.md. Collect the summary statement / reviews and the prior submitted version. Verify current resubmission rules (NIH: one resubmission (A1), a one-page Introduction to Resubmission, a time window for submitting it, and rules on when a reworked project may return as a "new" application — all have changed before; check the current policy and FOA). Work in a new project version, preserving the prior submission intact for reference (git mode: tag the submitted commit — e.g., submitted-A0-<date> — before any resubmission edits, so the diff against what reviewers actually read stays one command away). Apply _agent/style-profile.md to every sentence of document text, and before delivering drafted or revised prose check it against the profile's *Directives* list item by item, counting any punctuation the profile constrains rather than estimating (shared convention 5).
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12## Step 0 — Read the summary statement between the lines
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14Reviewer language is conventionalized; decode it before triaging:
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16- **Discussed vs. Not Discussed** is the first signal. ND with middling criterion scores often means "no champion," not "fatally flawed" — usually fixable. Discussed with a poor Overall Impact score means the panel engaged and still declined; the resume of discussion holds the reason.
17- **The resume of discussion** (discussed applications only) is the highest-value text: it records what the panel collectively cared about, which predicts what the next panel will care about. Weight it above any individual critique.
18- **Score pattern**: strong Factor 1 with weak Factor 2 is the *good* pattern — approach problems are the most fixable. Weak Factor 1 (importance/significance) is the hard one: if the panel doubts the question matters, a cleaner methods section will not save it, and the honest conversation with the user is whether to reframe the project or redirect the effort.
19- **Coded vocabulary**: "ambitious" = they don't believe the timeline; "descriptive" = no hypothesis; "incremental" = significance failure; "enthusiasm was dampened/diminished" = this issue drove the score; "the PI may wish to consider X" = do X; "unclear" = the reviewer's misreading is your presentation problem. Faint strengths ("the PI is productive," "the environment is excellent") with nothing said about the science signal low enthusiasm.
20- **Prompt the user to call the program officer.** The PO attended the discussion and can say what actually dominated it, whether the panel's tone was salvage-or-abandon, and whether to resubmit or return as new. Do this before committing to a strategy.
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22## Step 1 — Decompose the reviews
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24Extract every distinct critique from every reviewer and the resume of discussion. Build a table: critique | reviewer | criterion affected | type (fundamental design / feasibility / presentation / factual error / preference) | severity (drove the score vs. minor). Where reviewers disagreed with each other, note it; you may side with one, but explain why.
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,014 words
Files1
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈120
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
1,555
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
0.84%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 8% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

1.7k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Middling. Fine to keep on in a project where you use it weekly, worth unloading in one where you never do.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 6.7 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md6.7 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Resubmission · 1.7k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/resubmission/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/resubmission" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/resubmission ] || { mv .claude/skills/resubmission "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/resubmission" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/resubmission"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add joshua-d-campbell/resubmission

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/resubmission/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/resubmission/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/resubmission" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/resubmission ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/resubmission "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/resubmission" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/resubmission" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/resubmission/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as grant-resubmission in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, resubmission.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencejoshua-d-campbell/resubmission

Versions

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Pinning

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