REA, the reverse-engineering MCP server, crossed 115,000 GitHub stars in a week

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), an open-source MCP server from the GitHub account morluto, went from near-obscurity to over 115,000 stars in the first week of October 2026, making it one of the fastest climbs GitHub has ever recorded. The idea is straightforward: it hands a coding agent the tools to take apart software without its source code, then reports back pseudocode, module graphs, and the evidence behind each claim. Installation is a single command, npx rea-agents setup, and it supports twelve agents including Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Native analysis rides on existing Ghidra, Hopper, or IDA installs, while JavaScript, .NET, and network-capture analysis need no extra engine. Everything runs locally, the license is MIT, and the repo sat at 285,600 stars as of 2026-10-16.

Summarized by the Neuricon wire. Every claim links back to its primary source where available.