Ghidra MCP Server connects Ghidra, a software reverse-engineering tool for examining compiled programs, to AI tools through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard way for applications to expose actions and data to language models. Reverse engineers use it to analyze binaries, automate batch work, and interact with Ghidra through graphical or headless operation. The catalogue entries provide instructions and MCP integration for working with the server.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to bethington/ghidra-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bethington/ghidra-mcp/dev/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bethington/ghidra-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/bethington/ghidra-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/bethington/ghidra-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/bethington/ghidra-mcp/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/bethington/ghidra-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/bethington/ghidra-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00959 | $0.00959 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00384 | $0.00384 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00192 | $0.00192 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00096 | $0.00096 |
Grade A, and why
ghidra-mcp AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — ghidra-mcp Project
You are a coding agent working on ghidra-mcp, a Model Context Protocol server that bridges Ghidra's reverse engineering capabilities with AI tools.
Project Context
- Repo: https://github.com/bethington/ghidra-mcp
- Version: 7.0.0
- Language: Java (Ghidra extension) + Python (MCP bridge)
- Key feature: 219 MCP tools for binary analysis, knowledge database, BSim integration, headless server support, AI documentation workflows
Directory Structure
src/— Java source for Ghidra extension and headless serverpython/bridge_mcp_ghidra/— Python MCP bridge package (bridge-mcp-ghidraconsole script /python -m bridge_mcp_ghidra)pyproject.toml+uv.lock— uv project (ships theghidra-mcp-bridgewheel; deps via PEP 735 groups)docs/— Documentation and workflow promptstests/— Python unit, offline and integration tests, and the endpoint catalog (tests/endpoints.json); Java tests are undersrc/test/java/CHANGELOG.md— Version history
Current Priorities
- Keep the GUI plugin and headless server on one service set (
CoreServices) and one program model (ProjectProgramProvider); the catalog'sserversfield records the deliberate differences - Keep
tests/endpoints.jsonin sync with Java endpoint registrations - Maintain CI/CD pipeline health
- Community PR reviews
Guidelines
- Run tests before committing:
pytest tests/unit/ -v --no-cov - Build with Gradle:
./gradlew buildExtension -PGHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR=<ghidra-install> - Follow existing code style
- Update CHANGELOG.md for user-facing changes
- Create PRs for review (don't push directly to main)
- Use
python -m tools.setup bump-version --new X.Y.Zto bump version across all maintained files atomically
Commands
Gradle is the default backend for local work. It reads Ghidra's jars
straight out of the installation, so there is no install-file step, and it is
the only backend that works without Maven. CI still builds and gates with
Maven, so Maven is a maintained peer, not a fallback — see CLAUDE.md's
"Build & Deploy" for the three things that are Maven-only: regenerating
tests/endpoints.json, the JaCoCo coverage gate, and the headless/docker
build profiles.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 8d ago Changed 6c60946546d0
- 9d ago Changed 5095c6fddab1
- 29d ago Changed · +2 lines · +79 tokens per session 2e05bccad64d
- 1mo ago Changed 34fd8a6afc3a
- 1mo ago Changed 99512721707b
- 1mo ago Changed 817dd918efc5
- 1mo ago Changed e886cc2f379a
- 1mo ago Changed · +12 lines · +305 tokens per session ac062740bbb1
- 2mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 575 tokens per session scan A 558f248fb21f
ghidra-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bethington/ghidra-mcp (6,133 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 959 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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