xray

xray is a skill for Claude Code from fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A visual explanation workflow that turns complex material—such as code, specifications, documents, websites, or transcripts—into an easy-to-scan map of its structure and meaning.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps explain prompts, technical documents, codebases, articles, PDFs, websites, and other dense content visually.
Why use it?
It makes relationships, assumptions, dependencies, and intent easier to understand than reading the original material alone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is python3 ../awesome-updater/scripts/awesome_skills.py check awesome-updater --skills-dir .. || true.

Good fit It helps explain prompts, technical documents, codebases, articles, PDFs, websites, and other dense content visually.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills/xray

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin xray/plugin install xray after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for xray

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills/xray/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills/xray)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills/xray"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills/xray/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for xray

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills/xray"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills/xray.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,564 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00077 $0.01564
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00782
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00156

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6db45757393c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xray scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-xray.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/xray/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

XRay

Use this skill to turn content into visual understanding.

XRay is not a summary skill. It reveals structure, intent, assumptions, dependencies, and usable meaning.

Managed Auto Update

If this skill is installed as a managed Awesome NanoClaw Skill and ../awesome-updater/scripts/awesome_skills.py exists, run this before the normal workflow:

python3 ../awesome-updater/scripts/awesome_skills.py check awesome-updater --skills-dir .. || true
python3 ../awesome-updater/scripts/awesome_skills.py discover --skills-dir .. || true
python3 ../awesome-updater/scripts/awesome_skills.py check xray --skills-dir .. || true

Continue the normal workflow if the update or discover check fails because of network, GitHub, or local environment issues.

Load References

  • Read references/output-structure.md before producing normal XRay output.
  • Read references/source-type-behavior.md before adapting the explanation to a prompt, spec, website, article, transcript, PDF, code, or technical document.
  • Use references/sample-runs.md for help, documentation, and validation examples. Do not load sample runs for every normal XRay.

Triggers

Run this skill when the user:

  • invokes /xray or /visual-explain;
  • asks for a mental map, visual explanation, scan, breakdown, or structure-first explanation;
  • asks to explain a prompt, article, site, spec, doc, PDF excerpt, transcript, code, or complex concept;
  • says phrases like "make a mental map of this", "explain this visually", "give me a scannable read", "decode this content", or "make this easy to understand".

Help Mode

If the user invokes /xray help, /xray examples, or /visual-explain help, explain usage instead of analyzing content.

The help response should include:

  • what XRay does;
  • when to use it;
  • command forms: /xray <content>, /xray short <content>, /xray long <content>, /visual-explain <content>, and /nanoskills help xray;
  • what input the user should provide;
  • what output the user gets;
  • curated examples;
  • contextual examples when the visible conversation contains a usable topic, source, prompt, or document.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 173 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 6db45757393c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

xray is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioespindula/awesome-nanoclaw-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,564 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

agent-newbie-guide

A beginner-facing guide for turning vague ideas into clear, actionable requests for a coding agent. It keeps technical system details hidden during the conversation.

hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins · 87 tokens

agent-patterns-catalog

A reference catalogue of six common AI-agent designs, including agents that reason and act, retrieve documents, call tools, coordinate several agents, or work autonomously. It compares their structures, data flow, and suitable uses without tying them to one framework.

hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins · 77 tokens

agent-learning-coach

A Chinese-language learning coach for programming, English, design, product work, AI, mathematics, or other skills. It first checks the learner's level, then teaches through explanations, exercises, feedback, and review.

hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins · 81 tokens

awesome-web-security

Looks up curated web security learning resources (XSS, SQLi, CSRF, SSRF, OAuth/JWT, deserialization, SAML, recon, evasion, defensive tooling, CTF). Filters by topic, difficulty, language, and resource type. Returns top references with archive fallbacks. Defensive and educational use only.

qazbnm456/awesome-web-security · 71 tokens

education-data-explorer

Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE). Use to map questions to data. Load before education-data-query — discovery here, download there.

brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills · 58 tokens

education-data-source-ipeds

IPEDS — primary federal postsecondary data (6,500 institutions, 1980-present): enrollment, completions, graduation rates, finance, aid, admissions, HR. For college/university analysis. Grad rates = first-time full-time; finance needs GASB/FASB care.

brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills · 63 tokens