REA Reverse Engineering Tool Passes 300,000 GitHub Stars
A free MIT-licensed tool that hands reverse engineering to AI agents drew one of the fastest star climbs GitHub has recorded in public view, which says as much about how fast AI agent tooling now spreads as it does about the tool itself.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), a reverse engineering support tool released on GitHub by developer morluto, went from 41 GitHub stars on October 2 to more than 300,000 on October 17, and reached 347,802 by October 21. It gives AI agents analysis capabilities through the MCP standard and works on PC executables, JavaScript and Electron apps, .NET programs, and websites. It is free to use under the MIT license.
REA is an AI agent-oriented tool, not a standalone app. It passes reverse engineering analysis to agents through MCP, and the developer frames it for inspecting software you own or have permission to examine.
The star count is the whole story here: from 41 on October 2 to 300,000 on October 17, then 347,802 on October 21, tallied by ASCII.jp. The official site's own examples point at small, concrete puzzles, such as why 200 + 10% returns 220 on the Windows calculator, rather than at commercial software.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.