Agents Learn to Take Things Apart: When Reverse Engineering Became the Day’s Biggest Debut

GitHub trending on October 7, 2026 — day 237 of this series, today’s actual date — sees morluto/rea post the day’s largest gain at +2,956 with a pitch to “reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries,” the third reverse-engineering project this series has tracked. tester-army/e2e rises for a third straight day and has now doubled in two days, openGym holds its roughly 1,400-a-day pace for a second day, ayghri/i-have-adhd returns at 54,439 stars, more than seven times its size on debut, and cathrynlavery/diagram-design’s description quietly grows from 38 diagram types to 42.

Reverse Engineering Gets Its Agent

morluto/rea (9,658 stars, 1,070 forks, +2,956 today): “Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.”

This is today’s largest single gain, by more than a thousand stars. It is the third reverse-engineering project this series has tracked. zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill appeared on August 5 as a skill router for reverse engineering and authorized penetration testing, and returned on September 1 at 33,396 stars. NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra, the long-standing reverse-engineering framework, posted +912 on September 18 and sits near 79K stars. rea’s pitch differs from both: Ghidra is a tool a person operates, reverse-skill is a set of skills an agent loads, and rea hands the whole job to agents, starting at observable app behavior and descending to native binaries.

Why three projects at different layers is the notable part:

A framework, a skill pack, and an end-to-end agent workflow now trend in the same category, each at a different level of automation. That is the same progression this series watched in coding, where tools first assisted a person, then became skills an agent could load, and then became agents that run the task. Reverse engineering appears to be following that path.

Consistent with how this series has handled other dual-use entries (heretic, camofox-browser, exploitarium), rea is noted for what it says about itself. Reverse engineering supports malware analysis and software interoperability alike, and the description doesn’t say which use it targets.

Two Projects, Three Days of Rising Growth

tester-army/e2e (6,402 stars, 288 forks, +1,725 today): +345 on October 5, +1,398 on October 6, +1,725 today.

earthtojake/text-to-cad (18,012 stars, 1,805 forks, +619 today): +83 on October 5, +437 on October 6, +619 today.

Both projects have risen every day for three straight days. e2e’s stars have roughly doubled in two days, from 3,223 to 6,402. Yesterday this series flagged the jump across four unrelated projects as likely a broad attention shift. Two of those four continuing to climb a day later, rather than falling back, makes that reading look stronger: the lift has lasted longer than a one-day spike would.

openGym Holds Its Pace

DuarteSantos8/openGym (5,757 stars, 786 forks, +1,419 today): +1,433 yesterday, +1,419 today.

A self-hosted gym tracker posting nearly identical gains two days in a row is the more telling result than yesterday’s debut number. Many debuts spike once and fade, while a flat pace near 1,400 suggests a steady stream of new visitors rather than one burst of attention. The self-hosted, import-your-history pitch continues to find an audience.

The Originator, Seven Times Its Original Size

ayghri/i-have-adhd (54,439 stars, 3,127 forks, +326 today): up from 30,675 stars on September 9 and 7,231 stars on July 22.

This series first tracked i-have-adhd on day 160 as the project that opened the agent-output UX category. It was already four times larger when this series revisited it on September 9. It has since added nearly 24,000 more stars in four weeks, and today’s +326 is a modest daily number against a total this large. The gains look cumulative rather than driven by any single event.

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The projects it inspired are growing alongside it. pbakaus/impeccable stands at 77,728 stars (+616 today), and diagram-design is at 44,074 (+228). diagram-design’s description changed since this series last read it: it was “38 editorial diagram types for Claude Code, Codex, and Pi,” and now reads “42 diagram types” for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Factory Droid, and Pi. That is four more types and two more supported platforms, so the project is expanding scope while it grows.

Also Trending

• mattpocock/skills (278,200 stars, +889 today): the largest sustained-growth repository this series tracks, up from 274,011 on October 2.
• msitarzewski/agency-agents (157,856 stars, +623 today): yesterday’s +744 eased slightly, still within range of the pace it has held since day 159.
• thedotmack/claude-mem (97,206 stars, +534 today): the same +534 figure as yesterday, an unremarkable coincidence worth noting only because the daily counts are otherwise rarely identical.
• boykopovar/AnyPS5 (6,660 stars, +949 today): up from 5,100 yesterday, the PS5-executable porting tool continues to sit in legally contested territory and is noted without detail.
• deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM (8,727 stars, +199 today): “clean and efficient BLAS kernel library on GPU,” GPU-level infrastructure in the same layer as last week’s tilelang debut.

Key Statistics (October 7, 2026)

• mattpocock/skills: 278,200 stars (+889/day) — steady climb continues
• msitarzewski/agency-agents: 157,856 stars (+623/day) — series day-one project, pace holding
• thedotmack/claude-mem: 97,206 stars (+534/day) — steady
• pbakaus/impeccable: 77,728 stars (+616/day) — design-taste skill, steady
• ayghri/i-have-adhd: 54,439 stars (+326/day) 🔥 — more than 7x its size on debut
• cathrynlavery/diagram-design: 44,074 stars (+228/day) — now 42 diagram types
• earthtojake/text-to-cad: 18,012 stars (+619/day) 🔥 — third straight rising day
• morluto/rea: 9,658 stars (+2,956/day) 🆕🔥🔥🔥 — largest gain today, agent-driven reverse engineering
• deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM: 8,727 stars (+199/day) — GPU BLAS kernel library
• boykopovar/AnyPS5: 6,660 stars (+949/day) — noted plainly
• tester-army/e2e: 6,402 stars (+1,725/day) 🔥🔥 — third straight rising day, doubled in two days
• DuarteSantos8/openGym: 5,757 stars (+1,419/day) 🔥🔥 — near-identical gain two days running

Critical Signal:

• rea gives this series a third reverse-engineering project at a third level of automation, after a framework (Ghidra) and a skill pack (reverse-skill), repeating the assist-then-skill-then-agent progression already seen in coding tools.
• e2e and text-to-cad rising for a third straight day supports the reading that last week’s multi-project jump reflects a lasting attention shift, not a one-day spike.
• openGym repeating a near-identical gain on day two suggests a steady flow of new visitors rather than a single burst.
• i-have-adhd at more than seven times its debut size, with its derivatives growing alongside it, shows an early category-defining project can keep compounding for months.

Keywords for 20261007:

• Teardown
• Momentum
• Sustained
• Originator
• Scope

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