Reverse Engineer Anything links AI coding agents to binary analysis tools

The open-source project now lets agents inspect compiled software through established reverse-engineering tools, widening access to analysis that once needed manual work.

Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is an open-source project that hooks AI coding agents into reverse-engineering tools so developers can inspect compiled binaries, trace calls, and probe how software implements features. It already has more than 200K GitHub stars and works with Claude Code and Codex through MCP servers, while also supporting Ghidra, Hopper, and IDA. The project can analyze JavaScript, Electron, and .NET targets locally, and its GitHub demos include reversing Notion’s clipboard logic, matching DX-Ball’s x86 behavior byte-for-byte, and recovering logic from Touhou 4. The release has sparked debate about whether it meaningfully improves reverse engineering or mainly lowers the barrier to copying software and bypassing paid features, even as the author says it is intended for legitimate analysis and reconstruction.