Name: bdistill-behavioral-xray
Rating: 52 (1 reviews)
Author: administrakt0r

bdistill-behavioral-xray

X-ray any AI model's behavioral patterns — refusal boundaries, hallucination tendencies, reasoning style, formatting defaults. No API key needed.

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Quality

Content

57%Scale 1-5

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The skill provides a clear overview of the bdistill Behavioral X-Ray tool with concrete CLI commands and a useful dimensions table. However, it suffers from moderate verbosity in motivational sections, lacks validation/verification steps in the workflow, and misses opportunities for progressive disclosure through supporting files. The 'When to Use This Skill' section and some explanatory text could be significantly trimmed.

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Trim the 'When to Use This Skill' section to 2-3 bullets or remove it entirely — Claude can infer appropriate use cases from the overview

Add a validation/verification step after report generation (e.g., 'Verify the HTML report opens correctly and contains all 6 dimensions')

Include a brief example of actual output or a sample behavioral tag to make the output section more concrete and actionable

Create bundle files for detailed dimension descriptions and example reports, linking to them from the main SKILL.md

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The skill includes some unnecessary explanations (e.g., 'No API key needed' repeated, 'The AI agent probes itself' explanation, the 'When to Use This Skill' section with 5 bullet points that largely explain obvious use cases). The probe dimensions table and output section are reasonably efficient, but the overall content could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete install commands, CLI invocations (/xray, /xray --dimensions refusal, /xray-report), and MCP natural language prompts. However, there's no example of actual output or how to interpret results, and the MCP setup instruction ('add bdistill-mcp as an MCP server in your project config') is vague for non-Claude Code tools.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The two-step workflow (install → run) is clear but minimal. There are no validation checkpoints — no guidance on what to do if installation fails, if probes produce unexpected results, or how to verify the report was generated correctly. For a tool that generates reports, there should be a verification step.	3 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The content is reasonably structured with clear sections, but everything is inlined in a single file with no bundle files. The probe dimensions table could link to detailed documentation for each dimension. The reference to '@bdistill-knowledge-extraction' and '/distill --adversarial' are mentioned but not linked or explained. No bundle files are provided to support progressive disclosure.	3 / 5
	Total	13 / 20 Passed

Description

58%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description identifies a clear niche — behavioral analysis of AI models — and lists specific dimensions of analysis, giving it reasonable specificity and distinctiveness. However, it lacks an explicit 'Use when...' clause, which is critical for skill selection, and the trigger terms lean toward jargon ('X-ray') rather than natural user language. The 'No API key needed' constraint is a useful differentiator but doesn't compensate for the missing trigger guidance.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with natural trigger phrases, e.g., 'Use when the user wants to test, probe, evaluate, or red-team an AI model's behavior.'

Replace or supplement the metaphorical 'X-ray' with natural user terms like 'test', 'evaluate', 'probe', 'benchmark', 'red-team', or 'analyze LLM behavior'.

Mention concrete outputs or methods (e.g., 'generates adversarial prompts', 'produces behavioral reports') to strengthen specificity.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists several specific actions: analyzing refusal boundaries, hallucination tendencies, reasoning style, and formatting defaults. These are concrete behavioral dimensions to examine. Minor gaps — doesn't mention specific methods or outputs (e.g., generating test prompts, producing reports).	4 / 5
Completeness	The 'what' is reasonably clear — analyzing AI model behavioral patterns across several dimensions. However, there is no explicit 'when' clause (no 'Use when...' or equivalent trigger guidance), which caps this at 3 per the rubric guidelines.	3 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes some relevant terms like 'AI model', 'refusal boundaries', 'hallucination', 'reasoning style', but misses natural user phrases like 'test a model', 'probe', 'red team', 'benchmark', 'evaluate LLM', 'model behavior'. 'X-ray' is metaphorical rather than a natural search term.	3 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The focus on probing AI model behavioral patterns (refusal, hallucination, reasoning style) is a fairly distinct niche. The 'No API key needed' detail adds differentiation. Minor overlap risk with general AI evaluation or red-teaming skills, but the specific behavioral dimensions help distinguish it.	4 / 5
	Total	14 / 20 Passed

Validation

90%

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Validation — 10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	10 / 11 Passed

Repository: administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills
Path: plugins/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills/skills/bdistill-behavioral-xray/SKILL.md
Commit: fbdfd63

Reviewed: about 18 hours ago

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