reverse-engineering-assistant: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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reverse-engineering-assistant copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant. It costs 308 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Coding instructions for ReVa, a Ghidra extension that provides an MCP server for reverse-engineering work. Ghidra is a tool for examining compiled programs, while MCP is a protocol for connecting tools to AI assistants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing ReVa, looking up Ghidra APIs, building with Gradle, or running unit and integration tests.
Why use it?
They identify the supported Ghidra and Java versions and show where to find APIs, build the extension, and run its tests.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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What it actually says

  • This is a Ghidra extensions for Ghidra 12.0 and later called "ReVa", the Reverse Engineering Assistant.
  • The extension provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Ghidra. The server is implemented in Java and uses the MCP Java SDK.
  • Remember that MCP is in development, so make sure to check the MCP documentation for the latest information.

Some good resources include:

  • The MCP Java SDK

  • Ghidra on GitHub

  • If you want to find a Ghidra API, start from the FlatProgramAPI or the ProgramPlugin API in the Ghidra repo. Use the GitHub tools to search for Ghidra documentation.

  • We don't use a gradle wrapper, so just run gradle in the root directory to build the project. We do have the Java tools installed in VSCode so you can just check for errors with VSCode instead.

  • When writing tests, use the Ghidra test framework. The tests are in the src/test directory. It is easy to run them with gradle test --info and the integration tests with gradle integrationTest --info.

  • You can use standard gradle test filtering to run specific tests with both of the test targets.

  • We target Ghidra 12.0 and later. Note we should use Java 21.

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reverse-engineering-assistant copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant (879 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 308 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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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