REA: open-source MCP tool lets AI agents reverse engineer any app down to assembly
Aiden_Tech_Ai · x · 2026-10-19
REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is an MIT-licensed open-source MCP + CLI that lets AI agents dissect any app, binary, Electron project, APK, firmware, or website down to the assembly level — no source code needed.
- Point it at a feature; it traces logic and returns evidence with file offsets and confidence scores
- Reconstructs working code or a full equivalent in your stack
- Fully local, no uploads; one command sets it up with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others
- Hit #1 on GitHub Trending and racked up hundreds of thousands of stars
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