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IDAssist

IDA Pro plugin by Jason Tang, who also wrote GhidrAssist, that adds a dockable PySide6 panel for LLM-assisted analysis of the open database. Its tabs explain decompiled or disassembled functions with a security summary, keep persistent chats with context macros and an optional ReAct agent mode, propose function, variable and type renames for review before they are applied, and build a semantic knowledge graph of functions, calls, data flows and security traits, with retrieval over reference documents the analyst adds. Models can call built-in IDA tools or external MCP servers, and a SymGraph tab imports and publishes names, types and graph data through the hosted symgraph.ai service.

Requirements & limits

  • Latest release at review: 2.4.0, published 2026-09-14 as a source-only GitHub release; the reviewed master commit is one commit later and only updates model guidance. The README and getting-started guide require IDA Pro 9.0+ with its bundled Python 3.11+ and PySide6, while ida-plugin.json lists IDA 9.1–9.4, and the 2.3.0 notes report fixes for IDA 9.3 and 9.4 on Windows with Python 3.14. Hex-Rays is recommended for pseudocode, with disassembly used otherwise. It installs with Hex-Rays' hcli plugin manager, or from a release archive in the IDA plugins directory with requirements.txt installed into IDA's Python; that file adds boto3 for Bedrock, which the manifest's dependency list omits.
  • Analysis needs at least one configured LLM provider. The reviewed provider types cover Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini and xAI API keys, OpenAI and Gemini subscription sign-in through OAuth, the local Claude Code CLI, AWS Bedrock, a LiteLLM proxy, and local Ollama, LM Studio or Open WebUI endpoints; the README's table also lists an Anthropic OAuth type that the source does not define. Explanations, chats and agent runs send pseudocode or disassembly to the active provider, so only a local or self-hosted endpoint keeps code on the machine. The documentation says chats, graphs, settings and feedback are kept in local SQLite databases in the .idapro/idassist folder of the user's home directory, with API keys encrypted in the settings database.
  • Programs come from the user's own IDA databases. Rename suggestions show confidence scores and are written to the IDB only for the rows the user selects. During a chat, built-in tools and external MCP servers, reached by URL over SSE or streamable HTTP or launched over stdio, can read and modify the IDB; in the Query tab, calls to tools whose names do not look read-only wait for an allow-once, allow-for-session or deny decision unless the chat accepts all tools, and this classification relies on tool-name keywords.
  • The SymGraph tab looks up the input binary by SHA-256 without a key, but importing, publishing and uploading need a SymGraph API key, and publishing uploads the raw binary itself when the service does not already hold it. The repository has no tests or CI workflows. MIT, per LICENSE and ida-plugin.json; IDA Pro, the Hex-Rays decompiler, model providers and SymGraph keep their own terms. Nothing was installed or run, and the reviewed sources establish no REA connection.

About this entry

Type
Integration
Category
Independent agent workflows
Relationship
Independent agent integration
Targets
Binary

Sources reviewed

The description was reviewed against primary sources. This does not establish runtime testing, security auditing or verified compatibility.

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Primary sources

  1. README.md GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  2. docs/getting-started.md GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  3. docs/index.md GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  4. docs/tabs/settings-tab.md GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  5. docs/tabs/symgraph-tab.md GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  6. docs/tabs/query-tab.md GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  7. ida-plugin.json GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  8. requirements.txt GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  9. src/services/models/provider_types.py GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  10. src/services/tool_approval_service.py GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  11. LICENSE GitHub · symgraph/IDAssist · Revision 09dd910
  12. https://github.com/symgraph/IDAssist/releases/tag/2.3.0
  13. https://github.com/symgraph/IDAssist/releases/tag/2.4.0
  14. README.md GitHub · symgraph/GhidrAssist · Revision 798a5d7

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