awesome-reverse-engineered

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### 11,944 open-source tools that exist because someone reverse engineered a closed app, API, device, protocol, file format, game or AI product.

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**[Search the index](https://alexgaoth.github.io/awesome-reverse-engineered/)** · **[Agent skill](#give-your-ai-agent-the-whole-index)** · **[Categories](#whats-inside)** · **[Hot this week](#hot-this-week)** · **[Add a project](#contributing)**

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## Give your AI agent the whole index

When a task needs to talk to something with no official API (a smart plug, a car, a chat app, a file format), your agent searches this index, ranks by stars, activity and license, reads the README, and picks the right tool.

```bash
npx skills add alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered
```

<details><summary><b>Other ways to install</b></summary>

**Claude Code plugin**

```
/plugin install reverse-engineered --marketplace alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered
```

**Any agent or shell (one file, Python standard library only)**

```bash
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered/main/plugin/skills/find-reverse-engineered/scripts/re_index.py -o re_index.py
python3 re_index.py search tuya local          # ranked matches
python3 re_index.py info make-all/tuya-local   # entry + README excerpt
python3 re_index.py clone make-all/tuya-local  # shallow clone into vendor/
```

</details>

<p align="center"><img src="assets/demo.svg" alt="find-reverse-engineered" width="820"></p>
<p align="center"><sub>Real output of the skill on the current data.</sub></p>

## Search it on the web

Filter 11,944 projects by category, language and health, sorted by stars or recent activity. Every search has a shareable link.

<p align="center"><a href="https://alexgaoth.github.io/awesome-reverse-engineered/"><img src="assets/site.png" alt="Search it on the web" width="820"></a></p>

<p align="center"><a href="https://alexgaoth.github.io/awesome-reverse-engineered/"><b>Open the search →</b></a></p>

## What's inside

**11,944 projects** with **10.3M** GitHub stars between them: 6,680 active, 1,808 slowing down, 2,202 dormant, 806 archived. Top languages: Python (3,028), C++ (1,776), C (1,625), JavaScript (730), TypeScript (667).

<p align="center"><img src="assets/categories.svg" alt="Projects per category" width="820"></p>

| Category | Projects | Top picks |
|---|--:|---|
| [**AI Tools & LLM Clients**](categories/ai-tools-llm-clients.md) | 726 | [claw-code](https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code), [system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools](https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools), [system_prompts_leaks](https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks) |
| [**Game Decompilations & Reimplementations**](categories/game-decompilations-reimplementations.md) | 3,022 | [shadPS4](https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4), [v86](https://github.com/copy/v86), [RPCS3](https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3) |
| [**Devices, IoT & Hardware**](categories/devices-iot-hardware.md) | 2,538 | [KOReader](https://github.com/koreader/koreader), [LibrePods](https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods), [OpenLogi](https://github.com/AprilNEA/OpenLogi) |
| [**Unofficial Web/App API Clients**](categories/unofficial-web-app-api-clients.md) | 807 | [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp), [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl), [MediaCrawler](https://github.com/NanmiCoder/Med

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