awesome-reverse-engineered

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.

npx skills add alexgaoth/awesome-reverse-engineered

Claude Code plugin

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

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

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/

_{Real output of the skill on the current data.}

Search it on the web

Filter 10,238 projects by category, language and health, sorted by stars or recent activity. Every search has a shareable link.

Open the search →

What's inside

10,238 projects with 9.9M GitHub stars between them: 5,801 active, 1,587 slowing down, 1,955 dormant, 718 archived. Top languages: Python (2,590), C (1,502), C++ (1,443), JavaScript (611), TypeScript (537).

Hot this week

The most-starred projects with commits in the last 7 days.

Just added

Most starred

Health

Unofficial APIs break when the vendor changes their side, so check health before you depend on a project.

How it's built

flowchart LR
  A[Research agents<br/>GitHub, HN, Reddit,<br/>awesome-lists] --> B[Scope filter<br/>interoperability only]
  B --> C[GitHub API check<br/>exists, stars, license]
  C --> D[(data/entries.json)]
  D --> E[README and<br/>category pages]
  D --> F[Search website]
  D --> G[Agent skill]
  H[Nightly refresh<br/>GitHub Action] -->|stars, archived,<br/>dead links| D

Raw data: data/entries.json. Removed repos: data/removed.json. Imported lists and searches: SOURCES.md.

Scope

This index lists interoperability, preservation and research projects: unofficial clients and SDKs, open drivers, local-control libraries, file-format parsers, protocol documentation, reimplementations and decompilations. Reverse engineering for interoperability is protected in many places (for example 17 U.S.C. §1201(f) and Article 6 of the EU Software Directive).

Left out on purpose: exploits and jailbreaks, security or certificate-pinning bypasses, decryption tools, cheats, DRM or paywall removal, CAPTCHA solvers, account bots and credential tools.

Using an unofficial client can break a service's terms of use. Use these projects with your own accounts, devices and data.

Contributing

Know a project that belongs here? Open an issue with the repo link and one line on what it reverse engineers, or send a PR that adds it to data/entries.json. Wrong category, dead link, or out of scope? Open an issue too.

Curated by @alexgaoth with research agents. Every entry is checked against the GitHub API.

Star history

License

CC0 1.0 for the list itself. Each linked project has its own license.