Open-source REA toolkit surpasses 100,000 GitHub stars by connecting AI agents to reverse-engineering tools

REA, an open-source toolkit, rapidly gained over 100,000 GitHub stars between October 6 and October 12, surging from under 10,000 stars. It functions by hooking AI coding assistants like Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex with professional reverse-engineering tools such as Ghidra, utilizing Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP). This allows users to analyze and modify desktop, Android, and website applications, leading to AI-decompiled game mashups and free, clean-room rebuilt software alternatives like ArtCraft, without claiming to recover original source code.