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.