REA, the tool that lets AI agents reverse engineer anything, rockets past 285,000 GitHub stars

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) by morluto has exploded on GitHub, crossing 285,000 stars with growth of several hundred stars per hour. The tool is an MCP server and CLI that plugs into AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and others — and lets them inspect binaries, applications and runtime behavior, then trace a feature down to the binary level with evidence attached. It handles native binaries through Hopper, Ghidra or IDA, plus Electron apps, Android APKs, .NET assemblies, firmware, WASM, EVM bytecode and network captures, all analyzed locally on your machine. Its showcase case studies include tracing Notion's Electron clipboard bridge and reconstructing a sound calculation from the DOS game DX-Ball. The MIT-licensed TypeScript project has 230 contributors and 72,000 forks, and its README is translated into 20 languages.

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