Reverse Engineer Anything hits 357k GitHub stars in 6 months by giving AI coding agents a decompiler
chessbuzz · x · 2026-10-24
REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is an open-source project that gives your AI coding agent reverse-engineering powers: name an app and a feature, and the agent inspects the compiled program, traces the code behind it, and reports back with evidence attached.
- Posted to GitHub on April 14, 2026, it reached 357,000 stars in six months — among the fastest-growing developer tools of the year; MIT-licensed, free, runs locally.
- It's an MCP server registered with one command (npx rea-agents setup) for agents like Claude Code and Codex. Not a decompiler itself, it drives existing tools such as Hopper and Ghidra, and adds its own parsers for JavaScript, .NET assemblies, Go and Rust binaries, Unity metadata, and AI model files; a standalone rea CLI works without an agent.
- Key design: every result includes the code, references followed, and a list of what couldn't be confirmed — turning the agent's job from guessing into citing. Example prompt: "Understand how search works in the Notes app, show me the evidence, and build a similar feature for my project."
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