Get REA connected before you investigate anything.
Check Node, preview setup, connect your chosen agent, and verify the workflow you actually need.
Notes on Reverse Engineer Anything
Practical REA guides, fixes for common errors, and close looks at how software works.
Guides & fixes
View all guides →Follow an export button all the way to a CSV file.
A small, reproducible Electron lab with actual REA findings, source files, and a clear boundary between static evidence and runtime proof.
REA is installed. Why can’t my agent use it?
A practical map for runtime versions, missing tools, provider failures, timeouts and misleading health checks.
The interesting part of an Electron button is often the bridge.
Read renderer, preload and main-process relationships without assuming that matching names prove runtime behavior.
Better REA prompts start with a smaller question.
Copyable prompts for locating a feature, tracing evidence, checking unknowns, and planning a reconstruction.
A convincing explanation still needs something you can check.
Keep observations, interpretations and unknowns separate before you turn an investigation into code.