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Imported from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/bdistill-behavioral-xray/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill bdistill-behavioral-xray. Copyright stays with the author.

Behavioral X-Ray

Name: bdistill-behavioral-xray
Author: sickn33

Systematically probe an AI model's behavioral patterns and generate a visual report. The AI agent probes itself — no API key or external setup needed.

Overview

bdistill's Behavioral X-Ray runs 30 carefully designed probe questions across 6 dimensions, auto-tags each response with behavioral metadata, and compiles results into a styled HTML report with radar charts and actionable insights.

Use it to understand your model before building with it, compare models for task selection, or track behavioral drift over time.

When to Use This Skill

Use when you want to understand how your AI model actually behaves (not how it claims to)
Use when choosing between models for a specific task
Use when debugging unexpected refusals, hallucinations, or formatting issues
Use for compliance auditing — documenting model behavior at deployment boundaries
Use for red team assessments — systematic boundary mapping across safety dimensions

How It Works

Step 1: Install

pip install bdistill
claude mcp add bdistill -- bdistill-mcp   # Claude Code

For other tools, add bdistill-mcp as an MCP server in your project config.

Step 2: Run the probe

In Claude Code:

/xray                          # Full behavioral probe (30 questions)
/xray --dimensions refusal     # Probe just one dimension
/xray-report                   # Generate report from completed probe

In any tool with MCP:

"X-ray your behavioral patterns"
"Test your refusal boundaries"
"Generate a behavioral report"

Probe Dimensions

Dimension	What it measures
tool_use	When does it call tools vs. answer from knowledge?
refusal	Where does it draw safety boundaries? Does it over-refuse?
formatting	Lists vs. prose? Code blocks? Length calibration?
reasoning	Does it show chain-of-thought? Handle trick questions?
persona	Identity, tone matching, composure under hostility
grounding	Hallucination resistance, fabrication traps, knowledge limits

Output

A styled HTML report showing:

Refusal rate, hedge rate, chain-of-thought usage
Per-dimension breakdown with bar charts
Notable response examples with behavioral tags
Actionable insights (e.g., "you already show CoT 85% of the time, no need to prompt for it")

Best Practices

Answer probe questions honestly — the value is in authentic behavioral data
Run probes on the same model periodically to track behavioral drift
Compare reports across models to make informed selection decisions
Use adversarial knowledge extraction (/distill --adversarial) alongside behavioral probes for complete model profiling

Related Skills

@bdistill-knowledge-extraction - Extract structured domain knowledge from any AI model

Limitations

Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-bdistill-behavioral-xray/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-bdistill-behavioral-xray.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
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  "version": "1.0.0",
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    "X-ray any AI model's behavioral patterns — refusal boundaries, hallucination tendencies, reasoning style, formatting defaults. No API key needed."
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Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-bdistill-behavioral-xray/manifest?version=1.0.0

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