Let AI Agents Reverse Engineer Any App, Binary or Website (REA MCP Deep Dive)
A YouTube deep dive on REA (morluto/rea), an MCP server and CLI that lets AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor reverse engineer native binaries, Electron apps, Android APKs and websites, explaining how it works with Ghidra, Hopper and IDA, its limitations and who should use it.
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REA (morluto/rea) is an MCP server and CLI that lets AI agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor reverse engineer native binaries, Electron apps, Android APKs and websites. This deep dive covers how REA works under the hood with Ghidra, Hopper and IDA, its real limitations, and who should use it. Repo: https://github.com/morluto/rea
Setup
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Let AI Agents Reverse Engineer Any App, Binary or Website (REA MCP Deep Dive)
REA (morluto/rea) is an MCP server and CLI that lets AI agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor reverse engineer native binaries, Electron apps, Android APKs and websites. This deep dive covers how REA works under the hood with Ghidra, Hopper and IDA, why it gained over three hundred thousand GitHub stars in a year, its real limitations, and who should use it.
Repo: https://github.com/morluto/rea
Chapters: 0:00 Reverse engineering with agents 0:29 The pitch 1:22 How it works 2:36 What it is good and bad at 3:46 Who should use it
#ReverseEngineering #AIAgents #MCP #Ghidra #ClaudeCode #OpenSource
