# Seven free GitHub repos teach reverse engineering from binaries to AI agents

> Original title: holy f*ck, someone put an entire reverse engineering degree on GitHub for free

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- Published: 2026-11-02T12:22:58.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/kb2kwxjnyrwlrm6dcp25yjb8l
- Original: https://x.com/sammy_capital/status/2117230989315297317

## Summary

A post presents seven GitHub repositories, with over 560k stars combined, ordered from raw-binary basics to AI agents for reverse engineering. The list runs from Ghidra and radare2 through LLM4Decompile, which reports 64.9% re-executability for its 9B v2 model on its own benchmark, to REA, which supports 35 target types with evidence-backed findings. A quoted post says REA reached #1 on GitHub trending and can split work across four subagents.

## Post

holy f*ck, someone put an entire reverse engineering degree on GitHub for free

7 repos, 560k+ stars in the right order they take you from a raw binary to agents that reverse engineer anything

1. Ghidra -> how to read any binary
↳ https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

the NSA’s software reverse engineering framework, where everyone starts

2. radare2 -> the same skill in the terminal
↳ https://github.com/radareorg/radare2

a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

3. LLM4Decompile -> an LLM that decompiles
↳ https://github.com/albertan017/LLM4Decompile

turns binary code into readable C, and the 9B v2 model reaches 64.9% re-executability on its own benchmark

4. r2ai -> an LLM inside radare2
↳ https://github.com/radareorg/r2ai

LLM-based reversing for radare2, the moment AI starts reading the binary with you

5. ida-pro-mcp -> let the agent drive the tool
↳ https://github.com/mrexodia/ida-pro-mcp

bridges IDA Pro to language models through MCP

6. reverse-engineering-assistant -> the same for Ghidra
↳ https://github.com/cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant

an MCP server for reverse engineering tasks in Ghidra

7. REA -> agents that reverse engineer anything
↳ https://github.com/morluto/rea

35 target types, from native binaries and APKs to firmware, websites and Electron apps, with every finding backed by evidence

the full list of what REA can reverse engineer below ↓

[Video](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Famplify_video_thumb%2F2117230919601827840%2Fimg%2F5hx9sWBNlpQGH1Da.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793836800&sig=4d5784d0f1091eb8)

## Quoted post @Gyome1_

> REA hit #1 on GitHub trending, and most people still run it inside a single chat
> 
> Split it into 4 subagents and one command takes a program you own from sealed binary to a tested rebuild with a match rate
> 
> Set it up once, aim it at the next one: https://x.com/i/article/2111752926104375296

https://x.com/Gyome1_/status/2111774069783720195