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Adding Custom Bedrock Prompts

GROW2 ships with 18 prompts covering NSF, NIH, DOD, European Commission, DOE (Office of Science), and NASA. These are a best-effort starting point — researchers are expected to customize them and add new ones for agencies or program types not covered.

How Prompts Work

Prompts are stored as JSON files in config/bedrock-prompts/. On every deploy, BedrockPromptsStack reads all .json files in that directory (excluding manifest.json) and creates or updates them as Amazon Bedrock managed prompts. No code changes are needed — just add a file and redeploy.

The proposal generation agent looks up prompts by agency prefix. For example, if the grant agency is DOE, it finds all prompts whose name starts with DOE-. The last hyphen-separated segment becomes the section name (e.g., DOE-Prompt-TechnicalApproach → section TechnicalApproach).

Prompt File Format

{
  "name": "AGENCY-Prompt-SectionName",
  "description": "Short description of what this section covers",
  "variants": [
    {
      "name": "default",
      "templateType": "TEXT",
      "text": "Your prompt text here. Use {{content}} for researcher's work and {{grant_info}} for the grant opportunity details."
    }
  ]
}

Naming convention: {AGENCY}-Prompt-{SectionName}

  • AGENCY must match what detect_agency() in bc/proposal-generation-agent/agent.py returns for that agency
  • SectionName becomes the section heading in the generated proposal
  • Use hyphens, not underscores

Current Agency Codes

Agency Code used in prompt name Scope
NSF NSF Standard research grants
NIH NIH R01-style research grants
DOD / DARPA / ONR / Army / Navy / Air Force DOD BAA/SBIR research grants
European Commission / Horizon Europe European-Commission Horizon Europe / MSCA
DOE Office of Science DOE BES, BER, HEP, NP, FES, ASCR basic research
NASA NASA ROSES / NOFO research grants

Adding a New Agency

  1. Add detection logic in bc/proposal-generation-agent/agent.py in the detect_agency() function
  2. Create prompt JSON files following the naming convention above
  3. Update config/bedrock-prompts/manifest.json to include the new prompt names
  4. Redeploy: ./installation/deploy-grow2-bootstrap.sh us-east-1

Adding Prompts for an Existing Agency

For example, to add DOE OCED (Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations) prompts alongside the existing Office of Science prompts, you would need a new agency code (e.g., DOE-OCED) since the OCED proposal structure differs significantly from Office of Science. Add detection logic for OCED-specific keywords in detect_agency(), then create DOE-OCED-Prompt-ProjectNarrative.json, etc.

Alternatively, if the new sections fit within an existing agency's proposal (e.g., adding a DOE-Prompt-WorkPlan section), just add the file — no code changes needed.

Prompt Variables

All prompts receive two variables:

  • {{content}} — the researcher's knowledge base content (publications, prior work, technical expertise)
  • {{grant_info}} — the specific grant opportunity description, program priorities, and requirements

Write prompts that treat {{content}} as the primary source of scientific truth and {{grant_info}} as the framing context.

After Adding Prompts

Run a redeploy — CDK will detect the new prompt files and create them in Bedrock. The seeder idempotency check will skip re-seeding, so only the prompt changes are applied:

./installation/deploy-grow2-bootstrap.sh us-east-1