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ReVa (Reverse Engineering Assistant)

Ghidra extension that runs an MCP server inside Ghidra, giving agents decompilation with namespace and cross-reference context, symbol, string, data-type, structure and call-graph tools, program diffing, renaming and PyGhidra scripting. Its README attributes the project's distinction to tool design for LLM use: many small tools whose schemas tolerate other input, redirect correctable mistakes and return short fragments linked to related information. Assistant mode serves an open Ghidra project to several clients at once; headless mode starts Ghidra itself with session-scoped projects.

Requirements and limitations

  • Ghidra 12.0 or later only. Install the release zip built for the matching Ghidra version through the extension manager, or build with gradle against GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR, then enable the ReVa Application Plugin in the project view and the ReVa Plugin in the Code Browser. Release v7.3.1 (2026-09-03) ships zips for Ghidra 12.0, 12.1 and 12.1.3 with Sigstore bundles and a matching PyPI package; the reviewed main commit adds unreleased dependency updates and a breaking CLI migration to MCP Python SDK v2.
  • Assistant mode needs a running Ghidra with an open project and serves streamable HTTP on port 8080 by default. Headless mode needs GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR, Python 3.10+ and the reverse-engineering-assistant package installed with uv, which provides the mcp-reva command; the README describes its projects as session-scoped and cleaned up automatically, created under .reva/projects in the working directory.
  • The server exposes Ghidra's PyGhidra scripting environment, and renaming and data-type tools change the project. Defaults bind 127.0.0.1 with scripting tools enabled and API-key authentication off; the README asks for API-key authentication or disabled scripting tools before listening on a public interface, and the reviewed source refuses an unauthenticated public binding in headless mode and asks for consent in the GUI.
  • Apache-2.0. The repository also publishes a Claude Code plugin marketplace with triage, deep-analysis, cryptography and CTF skills. README statements about context use and performance on large binaries or firmware images are the author's; no extension, server or analysis was run, and the reviewed sources establish no REA connection.

About this entry

Type
Integration
Category
Independent MCP integrations
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.

Primary sources

  1. README.md GitHub · cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant · Revision a05a6b0
  2. LICENSE GitHub · cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant · Revision a05a6b0
  3. pyproject.toml GitHub · cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant · Revision a05a6b0
  4. src/main/java/reva/plugin/ConfigManager.java GitHub · cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant · Revision a05a6b0
  5. src/main/java/reva/server/McpServerManager.java GitHub · cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant · Revision a05a6b0
  6. https://github.com/cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant/releases/tag/v7.3.1
  7. https://pypi.org/project/reverse-engineering-assistant/7.3.1/
  8. https://github.com/cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant/compare/v7.3.1...a05a6b0a18649efd6d74ec8447bdadf8d468c365