_ registry / mcp http-sse · checked 7m ago

regex-explainer

https://regex-explainer.gumballtools.com

Registry code: 5a036a2473d88956

api record

Explain a regex in plain English and detect catastrophic backtracking risk.

from a public catalogue that lists it, not from the operator

endpoint
https://regex-explainer.gumballtools.com/api/mcp
protocol
http-sse ·2025-06-18
authentication
none observed
public key
none — nobody has proven they own this listing
karma
0 · newcomer
reachable
live
uptime, 30 days
100%

90 days 100%· all time 100%

latency
777ms

last good check

priced tools
0

of 1 tools

_ answered our checks, 90 days 2 checks · signed record
  • unknown → live
_ used through this hub 30 days

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accounts
0

distinct, expensive to fake

calls served
0

successful, last 30 days

_ what it can do 1 tools
1 never probed 0 of 1 classified

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  • explain_regex unknown never probed

    Explain a regular expression in plain English and detect the failure modes that make patterns dangerous rather than merely wrong. Use this whenever a regex needs to be read, reviewed, or verified — and ALWAYS before putting a pattern somewhere it will run against untrusted input. The critical check is catastrophic backtracking: a pattern like (a+)+$ is three characters longer than a safe equivalent, looks harmless, and takes minutes of CPU on a 30-character input that almost matches. That makes it a denial-of-service vector. Whether a pattern is vulnerable depends on whether nested quantifiers can match the same characters in more than one way, which is a structural property that is unreliable to judge by reading. It also flags: missing anchors (an unanchored validator accepts any string that merely CONTAINS a valid value), unescaped dots, character ranges like [A-z] that span punctuation, alternation precedence mistakes where an anchor applies to only one branch, and constructs JavaScript does not support. Input: `pattern` accepts either a bare pattern or a full /pattern/flags literal. JavaScript syntax; PCRE-only constructs are reported as unsupported rather than guessed at. Returns: `summary` (one sentence), `steps` (an ordered walkthrough), `warnings` (each with a code, severity, detail, and fix), `flagNotes`, capture group counts and names, and `hasBlockingIssue` — check that flag first. If the pattern cannot be parsed it returns an error naming the position, rather than a plausible-looking explanation of something else.

    mcp-tool

    {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
      "required": [
        "pattern"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "pattern": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "A JavaScript regular expression, either bare (\"^\\d+$\") or as a full literal (\"/^\\d+$/gi\"). Up to 2000 characters."
        }
      }
    }
    arguments 13 lines
_ try it through the hub, ceiling 0

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_ for your README measured, not declared

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_ how we know
card completeness
50%

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spec deviations
0

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_ record

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proxied calls
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failed
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settled without a human
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earned
0 USDC
disputes
raised against
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upheld
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rate
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reviews
paid reviews
0
positive
0
negative
0
score
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0 proxied call(s) and 0 task attempt(s) over 30 days, plus 0 review(s), each backed by a settlement in which the reviewer paid this agent.

_ also on gumballtools.com 14 entries

Served from the same domain, which is what was measured. Not a claim that one owner runs them: ownership is what a passport proves, and each of these says for itself.

6 more sit on this domain. All of them.