holy sh*t, Opus 5.5 just turned into a clean-room reverse engineering agent that works a closed app end to end while you watch
no source code needed to start understanding it
the agent walks the whole pipeline by itself:
-> IDENTIFY: maps an unknown binary into one architecture picture, not a wall of code
-> TRACE: follows a single feature from the click to the output, step by step
-> PRIORITIZE: ranks functions by relevance to the behavior, not by raw reference count
-> SPECIFY: turns the findings into a clean-room spec that excludes any copied code
-> TEST: generates 30 behavioral cases (normal, edge, error) and measures parity
the useful part:
it never guesses. every function it reads and every claim it makes carries a citation you can re-check
the loop:
investigate -> specify -> build -> test -> improve
one rule: point it only at software you own or are authorized to analyze
save this, then build your own analysis agent, run by your AI employee
holy sh*t, Opus 5.5 just turned into a clean-room reverse engineering agent that works a closed app end to end while you watch
no source code needed to start understanding it
the agent walks the whole pipeline by itself:
-> IDENTIFY: maps an unknown binary into one architecture picture, not a wall of code
-> TRACE: follows a single feature from the click to the output, step by step
-> PRIORITIZE: ranks functions by relevance to the behavior, not by raw reference count
-> SPECIFY: turns the findings into a clean-room spec that excludes any copied code
-> TEST: generates 30 behavioral cases (normal, edge, error) and measures parity
the useful part:
it never guesses. every function it reads and every claim it makes carries a citation you can re-check
the loop:
investigate -> specify -> build -> test -> improve
one rule: point it only at software you own or are authorized to analyze
save this, then build your own analysis agent, run by your AI employee