REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

I wonder if this is why I've seen a lot videos popping up on my youtube feed related to vibe coded clones of various commercial apps in the past few days. Everything from clones of flagship products from Adob to Microsoft Office.Adobe product clones like Photoshop and Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFB79TYI-VwAdobe after effects clone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mi_tYSdkWQMS Office suite clone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_jTYMOlXio reply: I built a from scratch rust RAW processing engine similar to the brains behind photoshop and lightroom - its much more powerful and its not even complete yet

I love such work. I hope to roll it into a package that anyone can use in the future. This work is only going to get more important because frontier models getting locked down will make this a lot harder over time.For example, I use Claude as a bouncing wall for my thoughts and I pointed out that, > GLM 5.2 was the only thing that helped HF while the agents were trying to access them. The "guardrails" stopped them from doing good. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act exists. Courts exist. And computers and an internet connection have existed for a long time. There's also 17 USC 1201 provisions with the 1201 a 1 exemptions [Image #31] so in this case, a farmer should be able to work with you to access the tractor they own. Or... IDK... a kindle that's out of date? :) What is lawful and what isn't is rooted not within the act but within intent, purpose and mens rea. And this is something the law has been deciding for centuries now. At one end, your maker can't say that governments should decide while at the other end explicitly refusing to allow governments to be the ones who decide. This was rejected for "Safety," > Opus 5.5's safeguards flagged this session.... reply:...

I might be missing something but... How exactly is this better than telling Claude for example to "install and set up a full RE environment including Ghidra" on my local system and get to work? Like what does this do that my current RE methodology doesn't? reply: Probably it is not better. I think this is aimed at people who do not have a “current RE methodology”, do not know enough to specify things like Ghidra, etc., but who do have a desire to feel like they reverse-engineered and can reliably predict that a conversation with a chatbot will make them feel that way.

Bookmarked. If this reliably maintains state across large binaries better than raw Ghidra scripts, it earns a spot in the workflow.

I’ve been trying to rebuild and modernise an old abandoned ms dos game, simply by pointing Codex (6.1 Sol) at the game directory, and it works insanely well. It’s able to understand the data formats, unpack graphics and sound assets, and reconstruct game logic.

Morluto is a legend.Started in the repoprompt (https://repoprompt.com/) community.Good stuff.

> Copy this into your coding agent:> Install REA and connect it to this coding agent using npx rea-agents@latest setup. Show me the setup plan for approval, then verify the installation.We have achieved the next evolution of installation by `curl | bash`! reply: I mean to be fair right under it they give you the command if you want to run it on your own. But yeah

What makes this better than just giving an agent radare2? reply: My agent usually goes and installs capstone itself.

Thanks for sharing and making this open source. Starred and followed

Oh I'll be trying this out for the OpenBFME project!

Ooh it can recreate old games from executables, I wondering if it can do Motorola MC68010, I want to play Stun Runner in 4K.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tByxdDiRdPM

Now there are no excuses to reverse engineer the most notorious closed source binaries out there including from Nintendo's system software to CUDA, and nvcc from Nvidia and make it all "open source".The only problem is the lawyers at all those companies will be readying their lawsuits, and given they have tons of money; they do not care and will come after anyone.