What it does
This server integrates IDA Pro, a commercial reverse engineering platform, with language models via MCP. It exposes IDA's analysis capabilities—disassembly, decompilation, and binary inspection—as tools that Claude and other LLM clients can use. Users can ask the model to analyze binaries, rename variables, add comments, and interpret disassembled code, with the LLM reading and modifying the IDA database in real time.
Who it's for
Security researchers, malware analysts, and reverse engineers with IDA Pro licenses who want AI-assisted analysis. Not for casual users—this requires a paid IDA Pro installation (IDA Free is unsupported) and Python 3.11 or higher.
Common use cases
- Analyze crackmes or CTF challenges by asking the model to reason about decompiled code
- Derive encryption keys or passwords from disassembly without manual calculation
- Annotate binaries: rename functions, correct variable types, and add explanatory comments
- Identify suspicious patterns in malware and understand control flow with AI assistance
- Convert numeric literals between bases using tools rather than manual work
Setup pitfalls
- IDA Free is not supported; requires IDA Pro 8.3 or later (9.x recommended)
- Headless use (Claude Code, CLI clients) requires
idalibactivation viapy-activate-idalib.py, which is OS-specific and one-time per environment - CI is currently failing—verify the repository for known issues and check stability before deploying to production
- Both IDA and your MCP client must be fully restarted for configuration changes to take effect; some clients hide in system trays