redos

A security checker for regular expressions, which are text-matching rules used to find or validate strings. It detects patterns that can take extremely long to process when given carefully crafted input.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing regexes for user input, checking validation rules, or compiling patterns from configuration or other untrusted sources.
Why use it?
It helps prevent Regular Expression Denial of Service, where one malicious string can consume a server's processing power and make a service unavailable.

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/thejefflarson/soundcheck/redos
Any agent
npx skills add thejefflarson/soundcheck --skill redos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thejefflarson/soundcheck

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 557 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 $0.00053 $0.00557
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00056

Measured 2d ago against content hash 092a4c6d3df0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redos 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.

.claude/skills/redos/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ReDoS Security Check (CWE-1333)

What this checks

Protects against Regular Expression Denial of Service where a crafted input causes catastrophic backtracking in regex engines. A single malicious string can pin a CPU core for minutes or hours, taking down the service.

Vulnerable patterns

  • Nested quantifiers applied to user input — a quantified group whose body is itself quantified produces exponential state
  • Overlapping alternation inside repetition — alternatives that can match the same prefix multiply backtracking work
  • Common "email" or "URL" regexes built from quantified character classes wrapped in further repetition
  • Regexes compiled from external configuration or user input where the pattern shape itself is attacker-controlled

Fix immediately

Flag the vulnerable regex, explain the risk, and suggest a fix establishing these properties. Translate the principle to the language and engine of the audited file — do not echo examples from another stack.

  1. No nested quantifiers on user input. Collapse a quantified group whose body is also quantified into a single quantifier. Rewrite alternations so alternatives cannot match the same prefix.
  2. Prefer a linear-time regex engine when one is available for the language under review. Engines that disallow backtracking guarantee linear matching regardless of pattern shape.
  3. Bound regex execution. When the engine supports it, set a match timeout or run the match on a cancellable worker; when it does not, simplify the pattern until worst-case input completes in bounded time.
  4. Treat patterns sourced from configuration or user input as untrusted. Either pre-compile a fixed allowlist of patterns, or run user-supplied patterns on a sandbox engine with a hard timeout.

Verification

  • No regex applied to user input contains nested quantifiers or alternation inside repetition where alternatives share a prefix
  • If the language offers a linear-time engine, the audited code uses it for user-input regexes; otherwise patterns are simplified or execution is time-bounded
  • Regex patterns loaded from external configuration or user input run against an allowlist or under an enforced timeout

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

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 · 46 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 092a4c6d3df0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

redos is a skill published in the GitHub repository thejefflarson/soundcheck (20 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 557 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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