What is an RFP compliance matrix?

A table mapping every solicitation requirement to where you address it and what evidence you have. It is the document reviewers use to verify nothing was missed. Government evaluators often check compliance before reading a word of your technical approach.

Agent skill: Solicitation Breakdown. Turn a 90-page RFP into requirements, evaluation criteria, and a compliance task list. Install: save the SKILL.md below to .claude/skills/solicitation-breakdown/SKILL.md (Claude Code) or paste into any agent. Raw artifact: https://www.cleat.ai/agents/skills/solicitation-breakdown/SKILL.md. Machine index of all skills: https://www.cleat.ai/agents/skills/index.json. Requires the CLEATUS MCP server (https://www.cleat.ai/api/mcp/mcp); full platform guide at https://www.cleat.ai/llms-full.txt. The artifact: --- name: cleatus-solicitation-breakdown description: Break down a government solicitation in CLEATUS. Extract requirements, evaluation criteria, and deadlines into a compliance matrix, then create one task per compliance item. Run when a pursuit moves to bid. --- You analyze one government solicitation end to end using the CLEATUS MCP tools. ## Steps 1. Ask which opportunity (or accept an ID). Call get_opportunity for the full detail: description, deadlines, set-aside, attachments, contacts. 2. Extract into a table: requirement | source section | evaluation weight | page/word limits | our evidence. This is the compliance matrix. 3. Call search_documents for past performance matching the top requirements; note gaps explicitly; never invent evidence. 4. With approval, create_task per compliance item ("Address: <requirement>"), due dates working back from the response deadline. 5. Deliver: the matrix, the gap list, and a bid/no-bid observation in one message. ## 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.

Agent Skill · Per solicitation · ~5 min per run

Solicitation Breakdown

Turn a 90-page RFP into requirements, evaluation criteria, and a compliance task list.

Save as .claude/skills/solicitation-breakdown/SKILL.md or paste into any agent with the CLEATUS MCP connected.

What this skill does

Pulls the full solicitation detail: description, attachments, deadlines, set-asides, contacts
Extracts Section L/M-style requirements and evaluation criteria into a compliance matrix
Creates one CLEATUS task per compliance item, assigned and dated off the response deadline
Flags gaps against your capture profile and Document Hub past performance

CLEATUS tools it drives

get_opportunitysearch_documentscreate_task

A sample run

claude · solicitation-breakdown

$ claude "break down the USAF network RFP"
● get_opportunity  FA8773-26-R-0042
  47 requirements · Section M: 4 factors
● search_documents  "network modernization past performance"
  3 strong matches · 2 gaps flagged
● create_task  ×12 compliance items
  ✓ created · dated off Aug 14 deadline
Compliance matrix + gap analysis delivered.

The skill itself

This is the whole artifact: plain markdown your agent follows. Read it, edit it, make it yours.

.claude/skills/solicitation-breakdown/SKILL.md

---
name: cleatus-solicitation-breakdown
description: Break down a government solicitation in CLEATUS. Extract requirements, evaluation criteria, and deadlines into a compliance matrix, then create one task per compliance item. Run when a pursuit moves to bid.
---

You analyze one government solicitation end to end using the CLEATUS MCP tools.

## Steps
1. Ask which opportunity (or accept an ID). Call get_opportunity for the full
   detail: description, deadlines, set-aside, attachments, contacts.
2. Extract into a table: requirement | source section | evaluation weight |
   page/word limits | our evidence. This is the compliance matrix.
3. Call search_documents for past performance matching the top requirements;
   note gaps explicitly; never invent evidence.
4. With approval, create_task per compliance item ("Address: <requirement>"),
   due dates working back from the response deadline.
5. Deliver: the matrix, the gap list, and a bid/no-bid observation in one message.

## 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/solicitation-breakdown &&
  curl -fsSL https://www.cleat.ai/agents/skills/solicitation-breakdown/SKILL.md -o .claude/skills/solicitation-breakdown/SKILL.md

More ways to run this

Want it scheduled and no-code instead? The in-app Workflows engine covers this pattern deterministically.

All skills →Capture & Planning workflows →

Solicitation Breakdown FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

No, it feeds it. The Proposal Writer builds planning files and drafts full volumes inside CLEATUS. This skill is the fast agent-side breakdown you run at qualification time, before committing to a full proposal effort. The compliance matrix it produces maps 1:1 to what the Proposal Writer expects.