Summary
The Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) repository has passed roughly 340,000 GitHub stars, and this tutorial from Zinho Automates shows how to get real results from it with Claude Code. REA connects professional reverse-engineering tools to an AI coding agent, so the agent can inspect an installed app’s compiled code instead of guessing from screenshots.
The video covers installing REA by pasting the GitHub link into Claude Code desktop, or with a single terminal command, and running everything locally. It then walks through a live test: asking Claude to look inside the Notion desktop app, work out how meeting notes and databases function, and build an original web app version. The resulting app, called Table Keep, included table, board and list views, filtering, sorting, and several property types. Claude found and fixed four bugs on its own, then reported what it skipped, such as formulas and linked databases, which it added in a follow-up pass.
The key lesson is to clone one feature at a time rather than an entire app, which wastes usage and produces half-working results. Viewers also learn to ask the agent for evidence, and for what it could not determine, to judge how trustworthy the output is.
📺 Source: Zinho Automates · Published October 21, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
