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Flash·Apps & Agents·2026-10-08 20:38

REA Tops GitHub Trending: Let AI Agents Reverse-Engineer Anything, Down to the Binary

Open-source project REA (morluto/rea) topped GitHub's daily trending chart on October 8, adding more than 4,600 stars in a single day per a third-party trending mirror and approaching 20,000 stars in total. The MIT-licensed project ships a unified MCP server and CLI that coordinates reverse-engineering tools such as Ghidra, Hopper and Frida, letting AI agents perform reverse and runtime analysis and return evidence-backed, structured conclusions.

HIMIAO Horizon·2026-10-08 20:38·1 min read

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  1. Update: as of Oct 13, REA has reached 155,000 stars (up from about 20,000 five days earlier), with 35,800 forks under the MIT license; the project has topped GitHub Trending’s daily list again.

What happened

REA gives agents the whole reverse-engineering toolchain through one interface: a single MCP server orchestrates tools such as Ghidra and Frida and the CLI wraps it up, so agents can analyze native binaries, JavaScript/Electron applications, .NET assemblies and websites — then produce structured findings backed by evidence. It plugs into mainstream coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI, and installs with a single npm command.

Key facts

  1. Heat: : topped GitHub's daily trending on Oct 8 with 4,600+ new stars in a day; approaching 20K stars total, MIT license
  2. How: : a unified MCP server plus CLI that orchestrates the Ghidra / Hopper / Frida toolchain
  3. Targets: : reverse and runtime analysis of native binaries, JS/Electron apps, .NET assemblies and websites, with evidence-backed structured conclusions
  4. Works with: : Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and more; one-command install via npm

Why it matters

REA is MIT-licensed and analyzes native binaries, JS/Electron apps and websites; it works with Claude Code, Codex and others and installs with one npm command.
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