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Reverse Engineering Assistant

Reverse Engineering Assistant is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. MCP server for reverse engineering tasks in Ghidra ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป. It has 853 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with uvx reverse-engineering-assistant.

github.com/cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant (opens in a new tab)

Install Reverse Engineering Assistant

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reverse-engineering-assistant": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "reverse-engineering-assistant"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio reverse-engineering-assistant -- uvx reverse-engineering-assistant

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reverse-engineering-assistant": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "reverse-engineering-assistant"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "reverse-engineering-assistant": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "reverse-engineering-assistant"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Reverse Engineering Assistant

A Ghidra extension that provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI-assisted reverse engineering ReVa (Reverse Engineering Assistant) is a Ghidra MCP server that enables AI language models to interact with Ghidra's powerful reverse engineering capabilities. ReVa uses state of the art techniques to limit context rot and enable long form reverse engineering tasks.

  • assistant
  • binaryninja
  • ghidra
  • llm
  • reverse-engineering
  • mcp
  • mcp-server

FAQ

Reverse Engineering Assistant FAQ

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What is Reverse Engineering Assistant?

Reverse Engineering Assistant is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. MCP server for reverse engineering tasks in Ghidra ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป. It has 853 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with uvx reverse-engineering-assistant. The source code is at github.com/cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant.

How do I install the Reverse Engineering Assistant MCP server?

Add the command uvx reverse-engineering-assistant to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Reverse Engineering Assistant free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Reverse Engineering Assistant actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is v7.3.1, published Sep 3, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.