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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:16AM (#47305739)
While the plugins do support the creation of RLHF datasets for model finetuning, the plugins themselves don't currently use a custom-trained model. They support all major LLM providers (including local). I've found that with the right prompts, the frontier models are shockingly effective. And they are progressing much faster than any custom training effort I could shoestring together. As the models improve, the plugins improve.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @02:15AM (#47305407)
https://symgraph.ai/ - AI-Powered Reverse Engineering Inside Your Disassembler

Open-source plugins for Ghidra, Binary Ninja, and IDA Pro that bring LLM reasoning, autonomous agents, and semantic knowledge graphs directly into your analysis workflow.

Coming soon: A supporting online service. The VirusTotal for reverse engineering. A cloud-native symbol store and knowledge graph service designed for the reverse engineering community.

- Submit files for automated reverse engineering and analysis

- Query shared symbols, types, and semantic knowledge

- Accelerate analysis with community-contributed intelligence

- Versioned, deduplicated symbols with multi-contributor collaboration

Show HN: IDAssist – AI augmented reverse engineering for IDA Pro

https://github.com/jtang613/IDAssist

I realize there may be some AI fatigue in the HN community, but I've genuinely seen a marked productivity boost using these tools - hence the desire to share them.With the releases of my GhidrAssist (Ghidra) and BinAssist (Binary Ninja) LLM reverse engineering plugins over the past year, a number of people have reached out to ask "where's the IDA Pro plugin?"Well - as of today, both IDAssist...

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GhidrAssist and GhidrAssistMCP LLM plugins reached v1.0

After just over a year of steady progress, my Ghidra LLM plugins GhidrAssist and GhidrAssistMCP both recently passed version 1.0. Not only, do these enable LLM helpers for common reverse engineering tasks, but fully automated reverse engineering of complex binaries is now on the table. Demo video: https://youtu.be/WHPDvzepScY Give them a...

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This is a gdbinit-style plugin for gdb that exposes the gdb interface via MCP. Unlike other implementations, it runs as a native gdb plugin and exposes the entirety of the gdb interface - as opposed to a small subset of commands - to the LLM.
Re:A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:50PM (#44544614)
Thanks for the interest. I wrote GhidrAssistMCP and the original GhidrAssist plugin which work hand-in-hand because I find they improve my RE workflow. They're not immune from hallucinations because the underlying models are not. However, they are fairly rare and I have had very reliable results with both Claude and ChatGPT. When used together, GhidrAssist+GhidrAssistMCP have been able to do some impressive analysis tasks.

If you're just getting back in the saddle, you might want to give both a try. In particular, GhidrAssist's "Explain Function" tool is really helpful at quickly summarizing code and reducing the mental overhead of making sense of large binaries.

Re:A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:38PM (#44544520)
GhidrAssistMCP features:

- several additional tools (like get_class_info, search_classes, etc),

- it has GUI config and logging,

- and it does not rely on an external Python bridge to host the MCP Server - it's monolithic (using the official MCP Java SDK).