ida-pro-mcp and IDAssistMCP
These are competitors offering overlapping functionality—both serve as MCP servers bridging IDA Pro to language models for reverse engineering—though A is vastly more mature and widely adopted while B appears to be an early-stage alternative.
About ida-pro-mcp
mrexodia/ida-pro-mcp
AI-powered reverse engineering assistant that bridges IDA Pro with language models through MCP.
Exposes IDA Pro's analysis capabilities as MCP tools (decompilation retrieval, disassembly inspection, variable renaming, type correction) that language models can invoke to assist with reverse engineering workflows. Implements both stdio and SSE transports with support for headless analysis via `idalib`, enabling integration with any MCP-compatible client from Claude to VS Code. Includes specialized tooling like `int_convert` for base conversion and session isolation for concurrent multi-agent analysis on different binaries.
About IDAssistMCP
symgraph/IDAssistMCP
Standalone MCP server plugin for IDA Pro.
Exposes 38 MCP tools for binary analysis, decompilation, and symbol management via HTTP transport (SSE or Streamable), with thread-safe IDB modifications, LRU caching for expensive operations, and an async task manager for long-running analyses. Integrates with Claude Desktop and other LLM clients through FastMCP, supporting guided reverse-engineering workflows including function analysis, vulnerability identification, and data flow tracing on IDA Pro 9.x with optional Hex-Rays decompiler support.
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