Built an app with Claude Code or Codex that breaks once you use it? I'll walk you through setting up Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) and show you where to point it first.
Five documented investigations into real software, and how to use what they reveal to build something of your own.
TL;DR
- REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is an open-source tool for AI coding assistants to investigate software.
- It allows users to understand how features work in applications, even without access to the original source code.
- A developer used REA to investigate QuickBooks Desktop and subsequently built a new accounting application called Ledger Reborn.
- REA facilitates understanding software decisions, aiding in the creation of custom versions.
- The tool provides specific investigations and starting prompts to guide users in their own software analysis.
- REA has gained significant traction, reaching over 200,000 GitHub stars.