REA MCP server
Reverse engineer anything from your terminal or agent with one CLI and MCP server.
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414 stars61 downloads/wk
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REA tools
No tool declarations could be read from the package source. They show once the server is installed.
How REA compares
Against every graded AI and agents MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 92/100
- higher than 90% of 4,460 AI and agents servers
- GitHub stars
- 414
- more than 95% of 2,711 AI and agents servers
- Downloads a week
- 61
- more than 50% of 1,538 AI and agents servers with a package
Release history: 7 versions in the registry since 2026-08-09, latest 2026-10-25, typically one every 6 days.
Install REA in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
Runs npx -y rea-agents on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.
claude mcp add rea -- npx -y rea-agents
What the publisher says
From the REA repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
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REA: Reverse Engineer Anything
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
See a feature you like. Understand how it works, down to the binary level.
Quick start · Current status · Investigation model · Tool catalog · Roadmap · How it works
npm install --global rea-agents && rea setup
See a feature in an app that you want in your own product? Give the app to your agent—even without its source code. With REA, the agent can investigate the feature, explain how it works, show its evidence, and build a version adapted to your stack and requirements.
REA gives agents one consistent way to investigate software. Today that includes deep native analysis and function dossiers through Hopper or bring-your-own Ghidra on Linux, plus an experimental Windows x64 Ghidra P0 for approved native PE applications; execution-free managed PE/CLI triage; reproducible Evidence v2 records; controlled process capture; passive website, Electron page, and Node/Electron V8 Inspector observation; bounded JavaScript/source-map reconstruction; and a versioned domain graph for connecting JavaScript application layers without confusing static inference with runtime observation. The longer-term toolkit extends the same agent workflow to APIs, protocols, mobile artifacts, firmware, richer runtime behavior, and differences between versions.
Reverse engineering normally makes the operator choose a tool, learn its API, move evidence between programs, and decide what to inspect next. REA gives that work to the agent through commands, skills, structured results, and repeatable investigation workflows.
Just ask your agent
Run setup once. Agent integration installs an aligned MCP registration and the bundled routing skill together:
npx rea-agents setupThen ask:
Understand how search works in the Notes app, show me the evidence, and build a
similar feature for my project.Notes is only an example. Name any app you want to understand, or ask the agent to start with an overview.
The investigation model
Decompile Open an app and recover readable code, strings, names, and other clues about how it works. Understand Follow the code from one part of the app to another until the agent can explain how a feature actually works. Recreate Turn what the agent learned into a feature for your own product, adapted to your stack, interface, and requirements.
REA shows how it reached its conclusions. It does not claim to recover original source code or automatically clone an application.
Why REA
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
REA: common questions
- Is REA MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the REA safety report
- How do I install REA?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does REA need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is REA maintained?
- The last commit was 57 days ago (2026-09-08). The latest release is v6.8.0.
- What can I use instead of REA?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: mcptoon MCP server, yutu MCP server and Watch CLI MCP server.
- How does REA compare with other AI and agents MCP servers?
- safety score 92/100 (higher than 90% of 4,460 AI and agents servers); github stars 414 (more than 95% of 2,711 AI and agents servers); downloads a week 61 (more than 50% of 1,538 AI and agents servers with a package). Full comparison.
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