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Case studies & GitHub projects

Magazine-style catalog of on-site write-ups. Every card opens an internal detail page — ratings, tags, and compliance notes stay on rea.run.

case-study 4/5

Aegis TOTP: recover the 30-second login-code rule from a release APK

How a GPL authenticator turns time blocks + account keys into six-digit codes — an authorized Android packaging lab, not an account bypass.

androidtotpgplauthorized
★ 13241 GPL-3.0 2026-09-06
Authorized GPL Android lab Read →
case-study 3/5

DownUnderCTF-style challenge: agent-assisted RE under contest rules

Using REA inside a contest-style reverse challenge — Evidence first, rules always win.

ctfchallengeauthorized
★ — — —
CTF-framed orientation Read →
case-study 4/5

DX-Ball: Evidence-backed explanation paired with an open reconstruction

A Breakout-style game lab: inspect behavior, then compare against a public reconstruction repo.

gamereconstructioncommunity
★ 13 MIT 2026-10-10
Evidence ↔ reconstruction loop Read →
case-study 4/5

TH04: another Evidence → reconstruction loop from the community

Same healthy pattern as DX-Ball: inspect, explain, rebuild in the open.

gamereconstructioncommunity
★ 16 MIT 2026-10-10
Historical reconstruction loop Read →
writeup 3/5

Notes-style intro: first investigation across UI and process boundaries

A first-session map for Electron-like apps: find where a feature actually lives before you rewrite it.

electronnotesintro
★ 57073 MIT 2026-10-10
Teaching map (Electron boundaries) Read →
case-study 4/5

Windows Calculator %: open-source contrast for a familiar quirk

Why 200 + 10% can yield 220 — and how to check explanations against Microsoft’s public sources.

windowsnativeopensource
★ 31075 MIT 2026-10-02
Open-source arbitration lab Read →
case-study 4/5

Outside-in “leak check” of a production Next.js + Stripe app

A practitioner used REA browser inspection on their own portal: what can an anonymous visitor see?

webblack-boxwindowscommunity
★ — — 2026-10-10
Own-app black-box audit pattern Read →
case-study 5/5

OpenBSD netcat: Evidence-backed static RE with REA + Ghidra

Gold-standard write-up: Ubuntu netcat-openbsd 1.234-1 inspected with REA layout tools and Ghidra — artifacts in-repo, no guesswork.

case-studyghidraelfauthorized
★ 1 MIT 2026-10-09
Gold-standard Evidence write-up Read →
case-study 5/5

OpenBattlefield2: clean-room engine RE with REA snapshots

C++20 reimplementation of DICE Refractor 2 (BF2-era): engine only, bring-your-own install, REA wired via tools/rea.sh.

case-studyclean-roomghidramcp
★ 35 NOASSERTION 2026-10-09
Clean-room + REA tooling Read →
wrapper 4/5

rea-jev: System-1 reflexes around REA in Claude Code

Claude Code plugin pairing REA MCP with TypeSafe Jev hooks — route, gate, score evidence, verify “done.”

wrappermcpclaude-codejev
★ 0 MIT 2026-10-07
Best third-party REA productization Read →
writeup 4/5

French community guide to REA (with legal framing)

Unofficial FR pedagogical repo: analyze apps/binaries with coding agents via MCP/CLI, Hopper or Ghidra, Evidence-first, legal notes included.

writeupdocslegalfr
★ 2 MIT 2026-10-09
Solid FR pedagogy + legal framing Read →
demo 3/5

Browser UI reconstruction demo with REA + CDP

Passive Chrome DevTools Protocol session: inspect a public pricing layout and rebuild a clean single-file page with an agent.

demobrowsercdpui
★ 4 — 2026-10-09
Useful CDP demo — watch the tone Read →
awesome 4/5

Awesome AI Reverse Engineering (lists REA)

Curated bilingual list of AI-assisted reverse-engineering tools — MCP, skills, plugins, agents — with REA in the local-agent picks.

awesomeindexai-reauthorized
★ 64 MIT 2026-10-10
Broad AI-RE map featuring REA Read →
awesome 4/5

Awesome Reverse Engineering (features REA)

CC0 curated list of reverse-engineering tools and learning resources — binaries, apps, firmware, formats, protocols — featuring REA.

awesomeindexupstream
★ 34 CC0-1.0 2026-10-09
Upstream companion awesome-list Read →
packaging 4/5

Install rea-agents from a community Homebrew tap

moonfruit/homebrew-tap ships Formula/rea-agents.rb — npm tarball, bottles, shell completions — for brew users who want a formula not only npx.

packaginghomebrewwrappermacos
★ 3 MIT 2026-10-10
Practical brew install path Read →
catalog 4/5

REA skill on Agent Skill Exchange

Curated catalog entry `reverse-engineer-apps-and-binaries-with-rea` — MCP-oriented skill metadata pointing builders at setup and Evidence workflows.

catalogskillmcpwrapper
★ 51 MIT 2026-10-10
Trusted skill-catalog packaging Read →
demo 3/5

A REA-prewired reverse-engineering workspace

Template repo: `.mcp.json` pins rea-agents, ships the REA skill, and keeps per-project RESEARCH.md — demonstrated on the author’s own MAD Studio Electron package.

demoworkspaceelectronmcp
★ 0 — 2026-10-10
Useful REA-prewired workspace pattern Read →
case-study 4/5

REA on Fedora: Node 22/24/26 timings & Linux notes

Community Discussion #1435: median timings for analyze-javascript-application across Node lines, plus Ghidra/Temurin, Chromium executable, and TMPDIR tips.

case-studylinuxfedoraops
★ — — 2026-10-09
Actionable Fedora field notes Read →
packaging 3/5

Packaging REA for NixOS

yzua/nixos-config includes packages/rea/ with pinned npm integrity, Ghidra ZIP digests, JADX, and offline loader tests — a packaging story for Nix labs.

packagingnixwrapper
★ 13 WTFPL 2026-10-09
Serious Nix provenance notes Read →
case-study 4/5

TH08: Imperishable Night semantic reconstruction

MIT source reconstruction of 東方永夜抄 ~ Imperishable Night 1.00d — Evidence-first agent routes in the same N0zoM1z0 family as th04.

case-studyhistorical-gamereconstructionevidence
★ 103 MIT 2026-10-10
Flagship historical reconstruction Read →
wrapper 4/5

Touhou Reconstruction Factory: Evidence control plane

Evidence-first control plane for verified Touhou reconstruction projects — shared IDA/Ghidra tooling, atomic evidence tools, read-only game adapters.

wrapperghidraidaevidence
★ 2 — 2026-10-06
Evidence-first multi-game control plane Read →
wrapper 4/5

TraceBrief → TypeScript port aimed at REA (in progress)

Partial vitest/TypeScript port of TraceBrief prepared for morluto/rea conventions — parity harness against real REA fixtures, explicit “what is not done.”

wrappertypescriptevidenceport
★ 0 — 2026-10-09
Honest partial port with parity harness Read →
writeup 4/5

Korean deep-dive review of REA

Excerpt focus: TechDoc/Reverse/REA-Review.md inside vibe-investing — Evidence v2, tool families, honest pros/cons, Getting Started — not the trading bots.

writeupreviewko
★ 342 — 2026-10-10
Deep Korean REA review (extract carefully) Read →
catalog 3/5

AGENTS skill mirror including REA

EstebanForge/AGENTS vendors `skills/reverse-engineer-anything` with META.md — a practical mirror for multi-agent skill directories.

catalogskillmirror
★ 4 MIT 2026-10-08
Convenient skill mirror Read →
awesome 3/5

awesome-jev lists rea-jev (REA + System-1)

AppitStudio/awesome-jev indexes TypeSafe Jev projects and includes a dedicated rea-jev tool page — discovery path into REA for Claude Code users.

awesomejevindexwrapper
★ 98 NOASSERTION 2026-10-10
Index page that surfaces rea-jev Read →
case-study 5/5

rea-playbook: Evidence → file:line → recreate (no engine required)

Hands-on playbook: minimal Electron target, Evidence extractor with line refs, MCP probe, verified Decompile→Understand→Recreate loop.

case-studyelectronevidenceteaching
★ 0 MIT 2026-10-10
Best net-new teaching layer Read →
wrapper 4/5

dsh-mcp-rea: curated MCP face + rea_cli escape hatch

Thin MCP stdio bridge for hosts that cannot filter REA’s full tools/list — 21 tools ≈ 6.7 KB, with CLI escape hatch for full coverage.

wrappermcpschemadsh
★ 0 MIT 2026-10-10
Thin MCP bridge + CLI escape hatch Read →
case-study 5/5

GunZRs: clean-room Bevy port with REA/Ghidra helpers

Apache-2.0 Rust/Bevy clean-room of GunZ: The Duel — loads maps/assets from your Steam install; REA+Ghidra scripts for investigation.

case-studyclean-roomghidrarust
★ 0 Apache-2.0 2026-10-10
Clean-room + REA/Ghidra framework Read →
wrapper 3/5

replicate-macos-app: Codex skill for authorized macOS rebuilds

Codex skill that pairs REA with macOS Computer Use to rebuild behavior into a new source project — authorized/own targets only on rea.run.

wrapperskillmacosauthorized
★ 0 MIT 2026-10-10
Polished skill — strict authorization required Read →
demo 3/5

Wuxiang: evaluate agent RE recovery (research fixtures)

Experimental Win64 C++ protect/verify toolkit for scoring multi-tool agents including REA — research prototype; anti-REA not established.

demoevaluationwindowsresearch
★ 0 MIT 2026-10-10
Agent-RE evaluation fixtures (research) Read →

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Teaching examples vs showcase

Examples are original labs. Showcase collects longer case narratives and GitHub project intros — still hosted here.

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