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REA MCP Server

Reverse engineer anything from your terminal or agent with one CLI and MCP server.

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Published as rea-agents on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

56 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Use MCP elicitation for scoped process-capture session grants

Problem

Dynamic and filesystem-backed REA capabilities currently require policy to be configured through startup environment variables. This is a strong ceiling, but first use is cumbersome: users must edit MCP configuration and restart the client even when they want a narrow grant for the current workspace and session.

The problem is broader than process capture. The same ceremony affects evidence import/export, investigation inputs/workspaces, persistent snapshots, native DMG mounting, co

Read the thread · 2026-07-13 · open · 9 comments

Make trace_feature operation-budget limits discoverable and errors actionable

Problem

trace_feature rejects max_operations values above 100, but the effective ceiling is not visible on at least one real MCP host tool surface, and the validation failure does not provide a structured repair path.

Observed with REA 1.7.0 through Codex MCP:

rea.trace_feature({
  "query": "Finding useful first work",
  "case_sensitive": true,
  "limit": 50,
  "max_operations": 300
})
Input validation error: Invalid arguments for tool trace_feature:
max_operations: Too big: ex

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/261) · 2026-07-16 · closed · 4 comments

### Make MCP tool discovery capability- and policy-aware

## Summary

Make REA's MCP discovery and workflow guidance reflect negotiated client features, installed providers, active target state, operator/session policy, and operation-specific limits.

Accurate static annotations have shipped. The remaining work is dynamic availability, truthful routing, and schema-visible constraints.

## Current problem

Agents still often discover only after invocation that:

- a provider or target does not support the operation;
- no target is open;
- process/eviden

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/101) · 2026-07-13 · closed · 4 comments

### Complete Hopper function dossiers with real references and CFG edges

## Problem

`analyze_function` is honest but incomplete: callers/callees and references are weakly typed, comments are entry-only, strings/names are unavailable, and CFG successors are not populated.

## Outcome

Return a complete bounded dossier using Hopper's public APIs without guessing unavailable reference kinds.

## Scope

- Independent pseudocode, assembly, and collection offsets.
- Typed procedure identity, signature, and parsed locals.
- Typed caller/callee identities.
- Procedure-wide 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/54) · 2026-07-12 · open · 4 comments

### Support MCP Tasks for long-running analysis operations

## Summary

Add a provider-neutral asynchronous job model and expose eligible long-running REA operations through capability-negotiated MCP Tasks. Preserve synchronous tool calls for clients that do not support Tasks.

MCP Tasks are experimental. REA's core execution model must not depend directly on unstable SDK APIs; the MCP Tasks adapter should sit over an internal operation abstraction with explicit ownership, status, cancellation, retention, and result identity.

## Current state in REA 1.3

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/97) · 2026-07-13 · closed · 3 comments

### Most recent

### Publish REA as a discoverable MCP server in the MCP Registry

## Current limitation

REA exposes an MCP server through its npm distribution, but the repository does not currently publish MCP Registry metadata or an automated registry release path. Users therefore cannot discover the server through the official MCP Registry and may need to configure it manually.

## Desired outcome

Publish REA under the registry name `io.github.morluto/rea`, with:

- an `mcpName` ownership marker in the npm package;
- a checked-in `server.json` describing the npm package, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/460) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 1 comment

### [Bug] MCP cold start exhausts Codex startup deadline

## Bug Description

REA's MCP process can exhaust the 30-second Codex startup deadline that `rea setup` configures. On a cold launch, importing the production entrypoint consumed about 20 seconds before the server could answer MCP `initialize`; modest client startup contention is therefore enough for Codex to report:

```text
MCP client for `rea` timed out after 30 seconds.
MCP startup incomplete (failed: rea)

This is also a package-validation gap. The current runtime and package smoke test

Read the thread · 2026-07-26 · closed · 0 comments

[Bug] Bare npx setup can again select a stale local REA release

Bug Description

REA's recommended setup command, npx rea-agents setup, can select an older project-local rea-agents dependency instead of the current npm release. The stale bootstrap then plans setup and version-pinned MCP registration using its own older product identity.

This behavior was previously reported in #291 and fixed by #292, which made rea-agents@latest canonical. PR #307 later restored the bare npx rea-agents setup entrypoint and the current main README recommends tha

Read the thread · 2026-07-26 · closed · 0 comments

Add end-to-end agent reconstruction readiness conformance

Problem

REA has individual capabilities for artifact classification, provider analysis, Evidence v2, process/browser/Electron capture, differential comparison, residual unknowns, and reconstruction verification. Individual feature tests do not prove that an agent can traverse the complete workflow without discovering hidden limits, incompatible providers, stale servers, missing authority, broken host runtimes, or false equivalence only after invocation.

Several previously separate failures

Read the thread · 2026-07-22 · closed · 0 comments

Agent integration capability selection is unclear and can silently drop the bundled skill

Problem

The "Agent integration (MCP + guided workflow)" capability bundles MCP client configuration and the REA reverse-engineering skill. However, the UI flow for selecting which agents to configure is unclear, and selecting the capability without selecting any agents can silently omit the skill installation.

Observed behavior

  1. The capability label says "MCP + guided workflow" but the second prompt "Which agents should use REA?" appears only after the capability is select

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 0 comments

setup wizard defaults to cancellation at every step despite explicit setup intent

Problem

Running npx rea-agents setup is an explicit statement that the user wants to set REA up. The current interactive wizard, however, starts every choice from a "do nothing" state and the final confirmation defaults to "No, cancel", which contradicts the intent of running the command.

Observed behavior

  1. The "What should REA set up?" capability picker starts with nothing selected (src/cliSetup.ts, selectCapabilities, lines 195-213). The installation docs explicitly do

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 0 comments

Add Node/Electron V8 inspector runtime observation provider

Add a focused Node/Electron runtime observation provider using the V8 inspector protocol (Node --inspect, Electron --remote-debugging-port with the Inspector domain, or an equivalent loopback transport).

Scope:

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · 0 comments

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