Use developer utilities with Claude Desktop

Exact answers for the small dev chores: regex, JWTs, cron schedules, subnets, schemas. Connect Claude Desktop to the WingMan MCP gateway once and these tools are available in every conversation.

1. Connect Claude Desktop

Open Settings, then Developer, then Edit Config, and add this to claude_desktop_config.json. Restart Claude Desktop. Claude Desktop's config file runs local commands, so the remote server is reached through the mcp-remote bridge (needs Node.js).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wingman": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://wingmanprotocol.com/mcp",
        "--header",
        "X-Wingman-Tools:full"
      ]
    }
  }
}

2. The tools you get

Names and descriptions come straight from the live tool registry.

• regex_testerTest a regex pattern against text (findall/search/fullmatch/split/sub) using a timeout-guarded engine so a catastrophic pattern fails fast instead…
• jwt_decodeDecode a JWT's header and payload to JSON.
• cron_nextNext fire times of a 5-field cron expression after a base time.
• subnetNetwork, broadcast, netmask, usable host range and counts for an IPv4 CIDR block.
• json_schema_validateValidate a JSON value against a JSON Schema (bounded draft-07-ish subset: type/enum/required/properties/items/min-max/pattern) and list every…

These tools sit outside the default tool list, so the config above sets X-Wingman-Tools: full to load the whole catalogue. Without it, your agent can still reach them with discover_tools, then get_tool_schema, then tools/call.

3. Ask for it

Give Claude Desktop a task that needs it, for example “use regex_tester from wingman”. The tool call goes to https://wingmanprotocol.com/mcp and the result comes back into the conversation.

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