# Payload Validator

- Registry name: `com.gumballtools/payload-validator` · version 0.1.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Build & deploy, Developer tools
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=com.gumballtools%2Fpayload-validator
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/com.gumballtools--payload-validator.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Validate JSON, YAML, XML and CSV with exact line/column errors and silent-corruption warnings.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://payload-validator.gumballtools.com/api/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `validate\_json`: Validates a JSON document and reports every problem with an exact line and column. Use this whenever you need to know why a JSON payload is failing, or to check a JSON document you or a user produced before sending it somewhere that will reject it. Do not do this by reading the JSON yourself. Three
- `validate\_yaml`: Validates a YAML document, including the values that mean different things to different YAML loaders. Use this for any YAML you are about to write or have just been given — CI configs, Kubernetes manifests, docker-compose files, OpenAPI specs, Ansible playbooks. Do not reason about YAML type resolut
- `validate\_xml`: Validates an XML document for well-formedness, namespace correctness, and the entity-based attacks that arrive as XML. Use this before parsing XML you received, and when an XML document is being rejected by something that will not say why. Do not eyeball this. Four classes of genuinely invalid XML a
- `validate\_csv`: Validates CSV text against RFC 4180 and reports ragged rows individually, with both field counts. Use this before loading a CSV, and whenever a CSV-derived number looks wrong. Do not attempt this by reading the file, and be aware that loading it successfully proves nothing. The failure that matters
- `validate\_auto`: Detects whether a payload is JSON, YAML, XML or CSV, then validates it. Use this when you have a blob of text and do not know what it is — a file with no extension, a clipboard paste, a response body with an unhelpful content type, or a config file whose format you would otherwise have to guess. Det

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