Regex Explainer

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

Connector by gumballtools.com · Domain verified by the MCP Registry

IndexedLicense unknownRemote (HTTP)

Install

Works with Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.

npx agentmarket install connector/gumballtools-com-regex-explainer

Asks which of your tools to add it to (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Claude Desktop) and shows the change first. See https://agentmart.dev/cli.

Remote endpoint

https://regex-explainer.gumballtools.com/api/mcp Remote (HTTP)

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

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What this server can do and what it asks for, from its tool list and install config. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

Tools: 1 read · 0 write · 0 deleteRead-only
Secrets: None asked for
Install scripts: Nothing to install (hosted)
Runs as: Hosted (remote endpoint)

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From the running server's own tool list (tools/list) on Oct 25, 2026.

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explain_regex

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regex-explainer.gumballtools.com · found in remote endpoint, install command

Tools (1)

As the server listed them on Oct 25, 2026. Descriptions are the server’s own words; hidden characters are shown as [U+…].

explain_regexExplain a regular expressionread-only
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 quantifier…

Signals

Last release: Sep 5, 2026 (1 month ago)
Repository: Not found on GitHub (deleted or private)

Details

Registry name: com.gumballtools/regex-explainer
Version: 0.1.0
Auth: Auth not stated
License: License unknown
Repository: github.com/bwalvoord/gumball
Website: regex-explainer.gumballtools.com
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: Official MCP Registry

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of 44,833 in Connectors

Score

0.537

Security 30%not yet
Popularity 25%0.30
Freshness 20%0.80
Rating 15%not yet
Docs 10%0.77

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Last check: 4 days ago
Status: Up
Median response: 1.4 s

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Regex Explainer MCP server. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/connectors/gumballtools-com-regex-explainer (last updated 2026-10-24)