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description: Food Proposal routes research and funding proposals through scheme selection, research, drafting, review, and revision. It enforces required headings, assessment criteria, and length limits for food, nutrition, and agricultural science applications.
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# Food Proposal

Food Proposal routes research and funding proposals through scheme selection, research, drafting, review, and revision. It enforces required headings, assessment criteria, and length limits for food, nutrition, and agricultural science applications.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/PangenomeAI/academic-skills-food-nutrition/tree/main/food-proposal ~/.claude/skills/food-proposal
```

## README

# Food-Proposal — Research & Funding Proposal Orchestrator

The proposal counterpart of `food-pipeline`. It does not research, write, or review
itself — it **routes the proposal to the specialist skills** and enforces the target
funding scheme's **format, length limit, and assessment criteria** at every gate.
Original work; the orchestration mirrors `food-pipeline`.

## Scheme first — the key difference from a paper
A proposal is written to a **funding scheme's format**, the way a manuscript is written
to a journal's. **Before anything else, resolve the target scheme**
(`references/scheme-selection.md`): ask the user which scheme, then load its spec from
`schemes/<id>.md` + `schemes/schemes.json` (required headings in order, page/word limit,
font, assessment criteria). **Built-in:** `arc-discovery-eoi`, `arc-discovery-full`,
`uom-major-minor-project` (see `schemes/INDEX.md`). **If the scheme isn't built in,
don't guess** — ask the user to upload the scheme's guideline / sample form and run
`scheme_extractor` to capture its format into a new `schemes/<id>.md` + `schemes.json`
entry. Every scheme carries a **length limit** — enforce it with
`scripts/proposal_wordcount.py`.

## Own subagents
- **`proposal_router`** — reads what the user has (topic only, or an existing draft),
  resolves the scheme, picks the entry stage, and assembles each downstream skill's
  input. Mirrors `food-pipeline`'s intake router.
- **`scheme_extractor`** — when the scheme isn't built in, extracts its format
  (headings, order, limits, font, criteria) from the user's uploaded guideline/sample
  into a new scheme spec.
- **`compliance_gate`** — the checkpoint between stages: verifies required headings are
  present and in order, the **length limit** is met (`proposal_wordcount.py`), the font/
  format matches, and the content **addresses every assessment criterion**.

## Stages
| Stage | Skill / agent | Deliverable | Gate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 · SCHEME | `proposal_router` + scheme resolution | Target scheme spec (headings, limit, criteria) | — |
| 1 · RESEARCH | `food-deep-research` (or `agri-deep-research`; `food-research`) | Knowledge base / evidence for the case | evidence sufficiency |
| 2 · DRAFT | `food-paper` (or `agri-paper`) writing to the scheme's headings | Proposal draft in the scheme format | `compliance_gate`: headings + **length** + criteria |
| 3 · REVIEW | `food-review` (or `agri-review`) as a mock funding panel vs the criteria | Review report + editorial decision | **mandatory** author decision |
| 4 · REVISE | `food-paper` (revise) | Revised proposal (tracked changes; original Word opt-in) | issues resolved + still within limit |
| 5 · FINALIZE | `food-paper` (format-convert) | Submission-ready proposal (`.docx`/PDF) to scheme format | final compliance |

**Slides?** For a proposal pitch, `food-ppt` can turn the finished proposal into a deck.

## From scratch vs revising an existing draft
- **From scratch:** run Stage 1 → 2 → 3, exactly as `food-pipeline` builds a paper, but
  to the scheme's headings and limit.
- **Revising a draft (has one already):** understand the field first (a `food-research`
  quick brief / reuse of any provided library, as `food-pipeline` does before editing),
  then edit to fix gaps and **fit the scheme** — never rewrite blindly.

## Inherited (not optional)
Anti-fabrication grounding + four-gate citations, privacy scan, academic style +
`human-writing.md`, the **mandatory AI-use disclosure** (some schemes, e.g. the UoM
project, require stating the AI model and prompts used — put it in Acknowledgements),
and the full-text-access first move for the research stage. Figures via `food-figure`.