# Regex Explainer

- Registry name: `com.gumballtools/regex-explainer` · version 0.1.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Other
- 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%2Fregex-explainer
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/com.gumballtools--regex-explainer.html

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

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

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://regex-explainer.gumballtools.com/api/mcp`

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

- `explain\_regex`: 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

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