aicodeking/leanrea
One 8 KB skill that replaces REA (Reverse Engineer Anything): plain CLI tools, no MCP. Benchmarked: 38% faster, 35% cheaper.
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One 8 KB skill file that does what REA does: no MCP server, no 207 tools, no setup. REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) puts an MCP layer between your agent and tools it can already use: asar, otool, nm, go version -m, jadx, apktool, Ghidra, tshark, binwalk, sqlite3. leanrea drops that layer. It tells the agent which command is fastest for each kind of target, gives it ready-to-paste recon commands, and lists the traps that REA's code handles for you. The agent then runs the real tools itself. Claude Code headless (claude -p), Sonnet 5.5, macOS arm64. 4 reverse-engineering tasks × 3 reps × 3 arms, with the arms run side by side. Answers are graded against hand-made keys. Against REA, leanrea had 38% less wall time, 35% lower cost, 56% fewer turns and 60% fewer tokens, at the same accuracy. Its one partial miss named an older IPC channel instead…
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What this repository does
One 8 KB skill that replaces REA (Reverse Engineer Anything): plain CLI tools, no MCP. Benchmarked: 38% faster, 35% cheaper.
Repository facts
- Owner
- aicodeking
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 3,825
- Forks
- 580
- Open issues + pull requests
- 8
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-17T02:53:24.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-19T11:34:21.000Z
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