REA (Reverse Engineer Anything)
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
Updated Oct 25, 2026
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A Drobo 5N owner used REA to reverse engineer the device's remote-control network protocol and published a Python script that performs the handshake and prints status, system, network and drive information.
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✳︎ Reverse engineering the Drobo 5N network protocol
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A Reddit post by /u/nanashili presenting early benchmarks of rea-rust, a work-in-progress Rust port of REA, comparing the TypeScript version's Java Ghidra backend against a native Rust Ghidra backend on a small C program and a larger Go target.
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✳︎ Java vs Rust Ghidra in REA: early benchmarks from a work-in-progress Rust port
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A 16-minute YouTube walkthrough of REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) showing how to install the REA MCP server, connect it to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, and use it to read websites, desktop apps and mobile UI in order to rebuild them as your own clean apps. The author links the MIT-licensed REA repository and states that only apps you own or that are open-source should be reverse engineered.
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✳︎ How to Use REA GitHub to Reverse Engineer Anything in Claude Code
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A YouTube tutorial walking through REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) from installation to a live demo, covering which reverse-engineering tools it wraps (Ghidra, Hopper, IDA Pro), five myths about reverse engineering, and ways to use REA for app feature cloning, freelancing and security research.
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✳︎ How to Reverse Engineer Any Software for Free with REA Agents #rea
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