# GhidraMCP

30 Hacker News commenters recommended GhidraMCP and 11 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Gives AI coding assistants like Claude access to Ghidra's functions, letting them label and analyze binaries much faster. Critics say its 110-tool surface adds context noise.

## Why people recommend it

- Much faster reverse engineering work (4 comments): "claude code and a ghidra mcp server is better than most of the reverse engineers out there and way, way faster" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730226)) "It's incredible watching it do in an hour what took me literal weeks before AI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090456)) "ghidra MCP has been an absolute gamechanger for helping me write tools" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137915))
- Pairs well with Claude and Codex (4 comments): "with Codex CLI + Ghidra MCP for reverse engineering a game without many issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990233)) "It's essentially here, I've had success with gpt-5.6 and Ghidra MCP" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041292)) "check out how Claude uses Ghidra MCP" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806011))
- Extensive coverage with 110 tools (3 comments): "Most complete toolset — 110+ MCP tools, 130+ REST endpoints." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980147)) "110 tools is impressive coverage for Ghidra." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885034)) "110 tools is impressive coverage." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885033))
- Names and labels functions automatically (2 comments): "It correctly identified and named MD5 functions, file IO functions, and the whole chain from a UI dialogue function." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106292)) "claude+ghidra mcp is very good at understanding firmware, labeling functions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972615))

## What people warn about

- Too many tools bloat context (4 comments): "MCP interfaces with high amounts of tools perform much worse than MCP interfaces with fewer tools" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883685)) "Having the description of 110 tools in your context window at all times is just noise." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884348)) "Tool stuffing degrades LLM tool use quality. 100+ tools is crazy." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886035))
- MCP layer may be unnecessary (2 comments): "could be rephrased into a pure skill and not come with all the context baggage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887974)) "I'm not sure you even need the MCP tbh" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106930))
- Output can be sloppy or fabricated (2 comments): "everything has deviated too much from the original. look a bit sloppy in places" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884613)) "the agent fabricated as lot of code, instead for translating it from source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883697))
- Popular version crashes and badly architected (2 comments): "Chrome/Ghidra MCP does have a tendency of crashing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330628)) "the popular Ghidra MCP is really badly architected" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980773))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ghidra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghidra.md): 80 recommend
- [IDA Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ida-pro.md): 25 recommend
- [REA Reverse-Engineer Anything](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rea-reverse-engineer-anything.md): 14 recommend
- [Binary Ninja](https://hackerapproved.com/p/binary-ninja.md): 13 recommend
- [Kampala](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kampala.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "GhidraMCP", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghidra-mcp/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).