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  1. AI reverse engineering sweeps GitHub as REA tops trending with 120k stars

    Over the past week, GitHub's trending list has been dominated by AI reverse-engineering projects. According to the report, REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) connects professional tools such as Ghidra, Hopper and IDA to coding agents via the MCP protocol, letting users describe what they want to Claude and have it disassemble a program or even rebuild the feature itself; the project reportedly passed 120,000 stars and hit the top of the trending chart in under a week. The article also says former Square engineer Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 and Rust to recreate seven Adobe apps, and that his ArtCraft team then rewrote Microsoft Word from public specifications as WordCraft, which reached 6,000+ stars within five days of appearing on GitHub.

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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. Developer vibe-codes open-source Word, Excel, PowerPoint clones with Claude

    Brandon Thomas, the developer behind ArtCraft — a set of free, open-source replacements for Adobe's creative apps — released WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft on October 13, targeting Word, Excel and PowerPoint respectively. The three apps are written in Rust with help from Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, are offered under MIT or Apache 2.0 licenses, run natively on Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD, and also work in browsers via WebAssembly from a single Rust codebase without Electron or Tauri. Per the GitHub pages, WordCraft reads and writes .docx along with .odt, .rtf, .html, .md and .txt, and supports styles, tables, track changes, spell/grammar check and mail merge; the developer says GridCraft already implements about 89% of Excel's ribbon and menu commands and roughly 98% of its worksheet functions; DeckCraft opens and saves .pptx and exports to PDF or images. Coverage and Reddit discussion note the apps remain early-stage: some call them "AI slop" and question whether one developer can keep up with fixes and upgrades, while Thomas says he has 15 years of coding experience and argues there is "no reason to save broken software" such as LibreOffice or GIMP.

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