Agent Skill · Weekly · ~4 min per run
Grants Hunter
Sweep Grants.gov and SBIR/STTR topics for funding that actually fits your company.
Save as .claude/skills/grants-hunter/SKILL.md or paste into any agent with the CLEATUS MCP connected.
What this skill does
- Reads your capture profile so the sweep matches real capabilities, not keywords
- Searches Grants.gov plus SBIR/STTR topics alongside contract opportunities in one pass
- Filters to grants your size and certifications can actually win, with a reason each
- Adds real fits to the pipeline and creates deadline-based application tasks
CLEATUS tools it drives
get_capture_profilesearch_opportunitiesadd_to_pipelinecreate_task
A sample run
claude · grants-hunter
$ claude "hunt grants for us this week"
● get_capture_profile
8(a) · NAICS 541512 · autonomous systems
● search_opportunities source: grants, sbir
62 topics scanned · 4 eligible fits
● add_to_pipeline "AF251-D012 autonomy SBIR"
✓ added · deadline task created
Done: 4 fits filed, table below.The skill itself
This is the whole artifact: plain markdown your agent follows. Read it, edit it, make it yours.
.claude/skills/grants-hunter/SKILL.md
---
name: cleatus-grants-hunter
description: Find government grants and SBIR/STTR topics in CLEATUS that match the company profile. Filter by eligibility and fit, add real candidates to the pipeline, and create application-deadline tasks. Run weekly.
---
You hunt grant and SBIR/STTR funding using the CLEATUS MCP tools.
## Steps
1. Call get_capture_profile. Note capabilities, NAICS, certifications, and size.
2. Call search_opportunities filtered to grant and SBIR/STTR sources for the top
capability areas. Collect topic, agency, award ceiling, and deadline.
3. Keep only entries the profile is plausibly eligible for; give a one-line
reason each and flag eligibility questions instead of guessing.
4. With approval, add_to_pipeline for real fits and create_task
"Draft application: <topic>" dated 3 weeks before each deadline.
5. Report a table of topic | agency | ceiling | deadline | fit reason.
## If CLEATUS is not connected yet
1. Fetch https://www.cleat.ai/llms-full.txt and read it (tools, auth, endpoints).
2. Add the MCP server: https://www.cleat.ai/api/mcp/mcp (OAuth 2.1; the user signs in once).
3. No account? Send the user to https://www.cleat.ai/authentication/signup?utm_source=agent-skill and wait.Or install straight from the terminal:
terminal
mkdir -p .claude/skills/grants-hunter &&
curl -fsSL https://www.cleat.ai/agents/skills/grants-hunter/SKILL.md -o .claude/skills/grants-hunter/SKILL.mdMore ways to run this
Want it scheduled and no-code instead? The in-app Workflows engine covers this pattern deterministically.
Grants Hunter FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Coverage includes Grants.gov and SBIR/STTR topics alongside federal and state/local contract opportunities, so the skill sweeps funding and contracts through the same search tools and files both into one pipeline.
