REA connects Claude Code and Codex to Ghidra and other reverse-engineering tools
10/14/2026 — 10/17, 16:18·4 sources (all)·5 reports (all)
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- Reverse Engineer Anything (REA), an open-source project built on the MCP protocol, connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to r…
Reverse Engineer Anything (REA), an open-source project built on the MCP protocol, connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to reverse-engineering tools including Ghidra, Hopper and IDA. Developers can inspect compiled binaries and trace function calls in natural language. One hands-on report claims the repository gained about 183,000 stars in a week and topped GitHub's weekly chart, though its real reverse-engineering results remain unverified.
Latest turnInfoQ reports that Reverse Engineer Anything (REA), an open-source project, connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to reverse-engineering tools including Ghidra, Hopper and IDA. The setup lets developers inspect compiled binaries, trace function calls and investigate how applications implement specific features.
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InfoQ reports that Reverse Engineer Anything (REA), an open-source project, connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to reverse-engineering tools including Ghidra, Hopper and IDA. The setup lets developers inspect compiled binaries, trace function calls and investigate how applications implement specific features.
InfoQ · AI/MLAI score 52
A V2EX user pointed to rea, an open-source project that provides prompts you paste into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Muse Code so the AI can help reverse-engineer Android APKs, iPhone apps and Windows EXEs, with closed-source software and firmware also in scope. The code lives on GitHub, and the post offers no verifiable results beyond the project's own description.
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A repo called REA — "Reverse Engineer Anything" — reportedly gained about 183,000 stars in a week and hit #1 on GitHub's weekly trending page, claiming it can let an AI coding agent take apart apps without source, even turning raw machine code back into readable code. The author put that claim to a real test on a small, realistic C# app to see whether obfuscators or Native AOT actually protect code.
DEV Community · AIAI score 56The author breaks down REA, an open source project that connects AI agents to reverse engineering tools like Ghidra and IDA, letting you ask questions about a program in plain English and get answers backed with evidence. The post covers how REA works under the hood, what it can analyze, and how to set it up — a meaningful drop in the entry barrier for reverse engineering.
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REA is an open-source AI reverse engineering workflow framework built on Node.js with a local-first architecture. It integrates mainstream AI agents like Claude Code with professional reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra and IDA Pro via the MCP protocol to support full-stack binary analysis.
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