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REA Investigation Prompts (REAP) — Reverse Engineering with your Coding Agent

A curated collection of prompts for REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) — the toolset that lets your AI coding agent inspect how software works, from native binaries, firmware and kernels to games, Electron apps, APKs and websites.

Prompts are ready to paste into your agent. Replace everything in  and keep each request focused on one feature — narrow questions get evidence-backed answers.

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 Install as agent skills (recommended)

setup.sh (macOS/Linux) or setup.bat (Windows) copies every prompt section into your coding agent's skills folder (~/.hermes/skills, ~/.claude/skills, ~/.codex/skills, or ~/.gemini/config/skills for Antigravity):

bash
./setup.sh               auto-detect installed agents
./setup.sh antigravity   or: hermes | claude-code | codex | antigravity | all


bat
setup.bat           :: Windows


What you get:

- Skills/ — 26 skill packs, one folder per section (reap-00-install-and-verify … reap-22-go-and-rust-binary-source-recovery, plus reap-prompts index, reap-wildcard and reap-prompt-writing-tips), each a SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter the agent auto-loads when relevant.
- system_prompt.md — the whole library as a single document you can paste into any agent's system prompt / custom instructions instead of installing skills.
- tools/build_skills.py and tools/build_system_prompt.py — regenerate Skills/ and system_prompt.md from readme.md (the setup scripts run them automatically; readme.md stays the source of truth).

 Sources & credits

- REA tools & guides: https://rea.tools/
- Official prompt gallery: https://madewithrea.com/prompts
- Intro thread ("REA is the most dangerous thing on the internet right now") by codila — https://x.com/0xCodila/status/2109623431763292649
  (quoting Matthew Berman — https://x.com/MatthewBerman/status/2108245653843509415)
- REAP Name by https://x.com/zazencodes?s=11
 Table of contents

|  | Section |
|---|---------|
| 0 | Install & verify |
| 1 | Getting started |
| 2 | Feature tracing (any program) |
| 3 | Native binary exploration |
| 4 | Software & feature cloning |
| 5 | Games |
| 6 | Game portability to WASM |
| 7 | Firmware & embedded |
| 8 | Android |
| 9 | Kernel analysis |
| 10 | Vulnerability research |
| 11 | Electron & JavaScript |
| 12 | Anti-cheat & protection research |
| 13 | DMA & hardware-assisted cheat research (defensive) |
| 14 | Software cracking research |
| 15 | Version comparison & crash work |
| 16 | Long-running investigations |
| 17 | Malware analysis |
| 18 | Advanced binary exploration & deobfuscation |
| 19 | Kernel & driver exploitation research |
| 20 | Advanced software cloning & feature reconstruction |
| 21 | Protector & obfuscator research |
| 22 | Go & Rust binary source recovery |
| — | Wildcard prompt · Prompt-writing tips · Next steps |

 ⚠️ Use responsibly. Only analyze software you own or are explicitly authorized to test. Anti-cheat, DMA, DRM, ke

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