There is a new software called REA (reverse engineer anything).
REA is an open source tool that connects to artificial intelligence coding agents through something called the Model Context Protocol. In plain English, it gives an agent the ability to decompile software, meaning take a finished application and work backward to understand its underlying code and logic.
Point your agent at an app. Ask it how a feature works. REA routes that request through established reverse engineering tools, the kind professionals have used for years, and the agent comes back with an explanation. Here's what this feature does, here's the evidence, here's what we're still not sure about. But the most important part is that the reverse engineering tells you not just what it does, but most importantly how it does it. The agent then writes its own version and tests it.
Do that feature by feature, and you've effectively reconstructed how an entire application behaves, without ever seeing the original source code.
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