IDA Pro MCP
Shares rank 8 of 9 reverse engineering tools by recommenders
Free plugin that lets AI coding agents like Codex drive IDA Pro for decompiling and patching software; people say it works well and beats Ghidra MCP.
Free plugin that lets AI coding agents like Codex drive IDA Pro for decompiling and patching software; people say it works well and beats Ghidra MCP.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works well with AI coding agents
“I've been decompiling and patching a wide range of software using codex with ida-pro-mcp”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 on Hacker News “with minimal guidance and IDA MCP these new models are able to do this”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries” “IDA Pro MCP works extremely well for me for all manner of tasks”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol” - Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “Sonnet 5.5”
Better architected than Ghidra MCP
“The IDA Pro MCP is substantially better than the most popular Ghidra MCP”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol” “the IDA Pro MCP is much better architected and seems to be pretty good”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol” Effective for unattended reverse engineering
“with minimal guidance and IDA MCP these new models are able to do this”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries” “it's pretty damn good at unattended RE with the IDA MCP plugin”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “Sonnet 5.5”
Other reverse engineering tools people recommend
The four most recommended other reverse engineering tools, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghidra | 80 | 20 | 80% | 13 | — | Approved |
| GhidraMCP | 30 | 11 | 73% | 10 | — | Approved |
| IDA Pro | 25 | 7 | 78% | 9 | — | Approved |
| REA Reverse-Engineer Anything | 14 | 9 | 61% | 2 | — | — |
| IDA Pro MCPThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“with minimal guidance and IDA MCP these new models are able to do this”
“the IDA Pro MCP is much better architected and seems to be pretty good”
“The IDA Pro MCP is substantially better than the most popular Ghidra MCP”
“IDA Pro MCP works extremely well for me for all manner of tasks”
“it's pretty damn good at unattended RE with the IDA MCP plugin”
“I've been decompiling and patching a wide range of software using codex with ida-pro-mcp”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.