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REA gives coding agents tools to inspect and explain software

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REA connects coding agents to reverse-engineering tools for examining programs, tracing calls and recovering behavior. It could help agents investigate unfamiliar software, though the excerpt gives no performance evidence.

What: REA gives coding agents tools to inspect software and explain how a feature works so it can be changed or rebuilt.
How: REA provides the target’s instructions, decompiled code and calls; the agent uses those findings to explain behavior, such as Calculator’s percent rule.
Why it matters: This can help engineers recover behavior from running software and reproduce it without manually tracing every instruction and call.

A coding agent uses REA to inspect a program and explain the findings. Sketched from the article's own text.

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