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  1. REA tops GitHub as AI takes over reverse engineering

    The open-source project REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) plugs disassembly tools such as Ghidra, IDA and Hopper into AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor through MCP, so a user can ask an agent to investigate how an app's feature works and show the evidence. Star History counted 78,800 new stars for REA in the week of Oct 4–10, first among GitHub projects that week, with its total nearing 100,000 when the piece was written; a homepage case traces a DX-Ball sound call to the function that computes left and right channels, reconstructs it in C, passes 3,205 tests and compiles to 63 bytes identical to the original. Elias Bachaalany, co-author of a reverse-engineering textbook, dismissed it with the single word 'hype', and in the same week developer Brandon Thomas released ArtCraft, seven free Rust programs built with Claude Opus 5.5 that target Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and others; PhotoCraft gained 42,900 stars in a week, but users reported broken PSD files containing Smart Objects, crashes when importing many clips, and only 5 of 30 filter-effect tests matching.

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  2. REA plugs reverse-engineering tools into Claude Code, Codex and Cursor

    An open-source MCP service called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) has topped GitHub Trending, with the cited post claiming a one-day gain of 25,784 stars and more than 60,000 in total. REA connects disassembly and reverse-engineering tools to AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor through a single install command (npx rea-agents setup), letting an agent trace code while a human verifies the evidence; it covers native binaries, Electron apps, .NET programs, Android APKs, firmware, websites and packet captures. The article cautions that the project's public demos use small, curated functions (many only 63 bytes), and that a Quarkslab test of Claude Opus 5 in a sandbox against hardened AArch64 binaries broke no sample, so obfuscation still raises attacker costs and the real moat of apps like WeChat sits on the server side.

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  3. Dev rebuilds 7 Adobe apps in Rust with Opus 5.5 — hands-on finds them far from ready

    A developer who describes himself as a 15-year industry veteran used Claude Opus 5.5 to help recreate Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, After Effects and InDesign in "100% pure native Rust," grouped under the ArtCraft name (PhotoCraft, FilmCraft and others). The apps are free, multi-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux and web), and tiny — around 80–90MB versus 6.4GB for Photoshop — but TechRadar's hands-on found PhotoCraft can't open HEIC files, has flaky selection tools and only saves as JPG, while FilmCraft can't drag-trim clips and plays back audio as loud static. With PhotoCraft at version 0.20 and FilmCraft at 0.2.1, the reviewer concludes they are nowhere near ready and recommends established free alternatives such as DaVinci Resolve for now.

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