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A hands-on review of REA (morluto/rea, rea-agents on npm), an open-source MCP tool that lets AI coding agents reverse engineer apps. The author points REA and Claude Code at the shipped files of Bruno, an open-source MIT API client, and produces a behavioural report in 22 minutes for $0.81, then verifies the main claims against the source and a short live network capture. The video covers what REA is and is not, which servers the app contacts, why a telemetry opt-out may not stop everything, HTTPS certificate checking, a hidden feature, the report's limits, and three warnings (fake copies, no sandbox, legal).