regex-tester

A testing guide for regular expressions, which are patterns used to find or validate text. It checks patterns against examples and reports whether they behave as expected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, validate, debug, and explain regular expressions with positive and negative test examples.
Why use it?
It catches patterns that match the wrong text or fail to match required text, before they are used in code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/agent-framework/regex-tester
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/agent-framework --skill regex-tester
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 358 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00033 $0.00358
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash bb19f508c078, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

regex-tester scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

dotnet/samples/02-agents/Harness/Harness_Step04_CodeExecution/skills/regex-tester/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Usage

When the user asks you to create, validate, or debug a regular expression:

  1. Understand the requirement — clarify what the pattern should match and what it should reject.
  2. Consult the cheatsheet — review references/regex-cheatsheet.md for syntax reminders if needed.
  3. Write and execute test code — use the execute_code tool to run Python code that:
    • Compiles the regex with re.compile()
    • Tests it against a set of positive examples (should match) and negative examples (should not match)
    • Extracts and displays any capturing groups
    • Reports pass/fail for each test case
  4. Iterate — if any test fails, refine the pattern and re-run until all cases pass.
  5. Present the result — give the user the final pattern, explain what each part does, and show the test results.

Example Test Script

import re

pattern = re.compile(r'^[\w.+-]+@[\w-]+\.[\w.-]+$')

positives = ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"]
negatives = ["@missing.com", "no-at-sign", "spaces [email protected]"]

for s in positives:
    assert pattern.match(s), f"FAIL: expected match for '{s}'"
for s in negatives:
    assert not pattern.match(s), f"FAIL: expected no match for '{s}'"

print("All tests passed!")
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 37 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A bb19f508c078

Subscribe to this mod's changes

regex-tester is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/agent-framework (13,222 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 358 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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