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Regex Explainer for Gemini CLI

com.gumballtools/regex-explainer

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

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Install Regex Explainer in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "regex-explainer": {
      "httpUrl": "https://regex-explainer.gumballtools.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

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