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aicodeking/leanrea
One 8 KB skill that replaces REA (Reverse Engineer Anything): plain CLI tools, no MCP. Benchmarked: 38% faster, 35% cheaper.
leanrea is an 8 KB skill file for AI coding agents that replaces the REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) MCP server. Instead of adding 207 tools, it just gives the agent instructions and ready-to-paste recon commands so it runs standard tools (otool, asar, jadx, Ghidra, binwalk, etc.) directly via Bash. Benchmarks claim 38% faster and 35% cheaper runs at equal accuracy.
Why now: It publishes a direct head-to-head benchmark against REA 6.5.0, showing large token/time/cost savings by dropping the MCP layer — part of a broader debate on MCP overhead vs. plain skill files.
Who it is for: Developers using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar agents for reverse-engineering tasks who want faster, cheaper recon without MCP setup.
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