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AI agents to drive reverse-engineering tools, new service agent developed

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Guangyi Zhao has developed REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), an npm package that standardizes reverse-engineering tools for use with AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI. This system allows AI agents to drive reverse-engineering tools, automating tasks such as listing functions, pulling pseudocode, and analyzing binary behavior, thereby shifting the human's role to asking questions and auditing evidence. Zhao also created Wiper-Service-Agent, an open-source project for a wiper-blade shop that uses a state machine for conversations rather than relying solely on a language model, with a deterministic rule-based parser for core functions and a real LLM for intent parsing. AI

IMPACT These tools demonstrate new ways AI agents can be integrated into specialized workflows like reverse engineering and customer service.

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Author: Guangyi Zhao Date: 2026-10-13 Subject: morluto/rea (REA: Reverse Engineer Anything), npm package rea-agents 6.4.0, MIT license Environment: Ubuntu 24.04

    Author: Guangyi Zhao Date: 2026-10-13 Subject: morluto/rea (REA: Reverse Engineer Anything), npm package rea-agents 6.4.0, MIT license Environment: Ubuntu 24.04 (Linux x64), Node 24.20; target is an ELF built from my own C source 1. Problem and background Reverse-engineering an u…

    LINKS dev.to/…/letting-an-ai-agent-drive-ghidra…
  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    If agencies sell judgment and a working system instead of hours, the product is a small "pod" setup: a brief an agent can follow, a gate a human must pass, and

    If agencies sell judgment and a working system instead of hours, the product is a small "pod" setup: a brief an agent can follow, a gate a human must pass, and a log. This post sketches that in Python. It is an illustration, not a customer story, and I have no results to share. T…

    LINKS dev.to/…/a-brief-a-gate-and-a-log-what-an…
  3. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Author: Guangyi Zhao Date: 2026-10-16 Subject: Wiper-Service-Agent (my own open-source project, github.com/Ezra-Zhao/Wiper-Service-Agent), scaffold v0.2, commit

    Author: Guangyi Zhao Date: 2026-10-16 Subject: Wiper-Service-Agent (my own open-source project, github.com/Ezra-Zhao/Wiper-Service-Agent), scaffold v0.2, commit 9675291, Python 3.12.3 Environment: Linux x86_64 VM, agent exercised in-process. No WhatsApp connection, no real messag…

    LINKS dev.to/…/can-you-make-it-cheaper-and-the-…

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