Community resource: Reverse Engineering 101 with REA + Ghidra

[rohitg00]

Hey everyone!

I put together an independent, beginner-friendly manual exploring how REA works with Ghidra, from inspecting a compiled C program to reading assembly, pseudocode, and evidence records.

The manual covers:

• REA 6.5.0 and Ghidra 12.1.4
• Binary inspection and function analysis
• Evidence provenance and limitations
• CLI and MCP workflows
• Reproducible captures and reconstruction checks

The idea is to help developers understand not just what REA returns, but how to evaluate the evidence behind those results.

Read it here: https://aiengineeringfromscratch.com/manual-reverse-engineering-101

This is an independent community resource, not official REA documentation. I'd love feedback from maintainers (@morluto) and anyone experimenting with REA, especially if there are technical corrections or improvements I should make.

Hopefully it's useful to people getting started with reverse engineering!

[ylwl1997]

Nice RE 101 resource — thanks for putting a beginner-friendly REA + Ghidra path together (independent / community, as you noted).

A few related bilingual community pages on https://rea.run (also unofficial; not affiliated with morluto / REA maintainers) that fit install, clients, and changelog:

• Install: https://rea.run/docs/install/
• Client matrix (incl. 6.5.0 setup IDs): https://rea.run/docs/clients/
• Operator changelog: https://rea.run/changelog/
• BYO Ghidra notes: https://rea.run/blog/ghidra-mcp-with-rea/
• What is RE (authorized / evidence-first framing): https://rea.run/learn/what-is-reverse-engineering/

Upstream docs and releases remain the source of truth: https://github.com/morluto/rea