food-proposal

# 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 ...