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Heard about REA? You can reverse engineer any apps without its source code.
A Personal perspective on REA, and the shift towards evindence based software analysis.
have you ever used an application, clicked a feature that worked with unusual speed, and caught yourself wondering how on earth the team pulled it off?
Being a product manager myself, trying different products more frequently than average human, i keep wondering at many instances, how can someone pull of this? I get that feeling constantly. For years, finding the real answer was nearly impossible unless the project was open source (or you have a friend who worked in that project! ). You could spend days inside Ghidra or Hopper staring at raw assemble instructions, or you could give up and guess. Most of us just gave up.
Reverse Engineering felt like a closed room reserved for security specialists with decades of practice.
That changed for me when i came across an open project called REA, created by morluto on github. The project got its attention recently with more than 140k+ stars on github at the time or writing this article.
At its core concept REA stands for Reverse Engineer Anything. It uses the Model Context Protocol, often called MCP, to plug directly into modern AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. Instead…
