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mrexodia/ida-pro-mcp

A modular MCP server and IDA Pro plugin that exposes reverse engineering tools, including decompilation, patching, and debugging, to language models. It requires a commercial IDA Pro license and an MCP client, and supports both GUI and headless workflows.

Project overview

Project type: MCP · AI Agent
Use cases: Automation
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: MIT

Best for

Developers and researchers with a commercial IDA Pro license (8.3 or higher, 9 recommended) and an MCP client (such as Claude Desktop or Cursor) who want to automate or assist reverse engineering tasks using LLMs.
Analysts who need to perform unified batch operations like renaming, patching byte sequences, or writing integers with type safety.

Key capabilities

Lookup, list, decompile, and disassemble functions, globals, and imports.
Add bookmarks, set comments, patch assembly, declare types, and define functions or code.
Run idalib-mcp to open binaries and perform reverse engineering tasks without the IDA GUI.
Control debugger process, manage breakpoints, read registers and memory.
Search strings, byte patterns, and instruction sequences in binaries.
Unified batch rename, patch multiple byte sequences, and write integers with type safety.
Execute arbitrary Python code in IDA context with Jupyter-style evaluation.

Limitations and risks

IDA Free is not supported.
LLMs are prone to hallucinations, especially with integer/byte conversions.
LLMs will not perform well on obfuscated code without preprocessing.
Requires a commercial IDA Pro license.

Getting started

Install Python 3.11+ and IDA Pro. Activate idalib globally using uv, then install ida-pro-mcp via the plugin marketplace or pip. Finally, connect via an MCP Client like Claude Code or Cursor.

Evidence and sources

README: Simple [MCP Server](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) to allow vibe reversing in IDA Pro.
README: - Supported MCP Client (pick one you like) - [Amazon Q Developer CLI](https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/) - [Augment Code](https://www.augmentcode.com/) - [Claude](https://claude…
README: - `lookup_funcs(queries)`: Get function(s) by address or name (auto-detects, accepts list or comma-separated string). - `int_convert(inputs)`: Convert numbers to different formats…
README: - `add_bookmark(addr, name, prefix)`: Add or replace the IDA bookmark at an address; set `prefix=""` for no prefix. - `set_comments(items)`: Set comments at address(es) in both di…
Release: 1.4.0

Reviewed at: 2026-07-21T22:34:52Z