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  1. REA hits 290k GitHub stars, but hands-on tests show AI reverse engineering still falls short

    The open-source project REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) has spread rapidly on GitHub, passing 290,000 stars as of October 17, according to MIT Technology Review China. It does not invent a new decompilation technique; instead it connects existing reverse-engineering tools such as Ghidra to coding agents like Claude Code and Codex through MCP, letting the AI call those tools to analyze binaries and attempt to reimplement functionality. When a developer tested it against programs with public source, REA's analysis of the esmtool program from the OpenMW game engine missed real call relationships in 22 of 50 functions while still labeling the output “complete”; in other runs the model skipped REA entirely and gave unverified guesses. REA's author, Morluto, responded in the project's discussions that the prototype-style MCP tool-calling design no longer suits most agents. Separately, the viral ArtCraft apps pitched as open-source alternatives to Adobe and Microsoft products did not use REA; their developer describes the approach as a “clean-room reimplementation” that does not copy the original code.

    MIT科技评论中文 · 🔥 3
  2. REA: AI-powered reverse engineering project fuels debate over rebuilding software

    An analysis piece examines the GitHub open-source project REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), whose star count passed 110,000 as of October 12. Developer Brandon Thomas says he used AI to build seven Adobe alternatives and declared "Software is over"; REA connects to analysis tools such as Ghidra, Hopper and IDA, handles JavaScript, Electron apps and websites, and can work with agents like Claude Code and Codex to trace data flows and rewrite code. Cited cases include an Aegis verification-code reimplementation whose output matched the original in 133 tests, and a DX-Ball sound function that matched across 3,205 tests and produced 63 bytes of matching machine code under a specified old compiler. The article also covers browser ports of games such as Halo and GTA: Vice City, and VibeOffice, which brings an Office 2003-style interface to the browser.

    虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0
  3. REA hits 120K GitHub stars as agents learn to reverse-engineer any app

    REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is an MIT-licensed TypeScript project by developer morluto that puts tools such as Ghidra, Hopper and IDA behind an MCP server so coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI can investigate software without source code. 36Kr reported the repository had about 120,000 GitHub stars by Oct 12, with growth surging after a 4.1.0 release on Oct 7 added mobile-app analysis, though other reports put the count at roughly 50,000–80,000. Documented examples include recovering a DX-Ball sound-panning routine as C code that passed 3,205 original x86 test cases, and tracing Notion's clipboard bridge; the community has since pointed it at Adobe and Google apps plus WeChat, Alipay and Douyin, though 36Kr notes those apps' core logic runs server-side behind packing, obfuscation and risk-control defenses.

    开源中国 · 🔥 0

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