bethington / ghidra-mcp
Ghidra MCP Server — 200+ MCP tools for AI-powered reverse engineering. GUI plugin + headless server, lazy tool loading, convention enforcement, batch operations, Ghidra Server integration, and Docker deployment.
Why this job: name: mcp; says: mcp server; topics: mcp-server, model-context-protocol, mcp
What it does
- Full MCP Compatibility. Complete implementation of Model Context Protocol
- 219 MCP tools. Comprehensive API surface covering every aspect of binary analysis
- Production-Ready Reliability. Atomic transactions, batch operations, configurable timeouts
- Real-time Analysis. Live integration with Ghidra's analysis engine
- Function Analysis. Decompilation, call graphs, cross-references, completeness scoring
Get started
git clone https://github.com/bethington/ghidra-mcp.git
cd ghidra-mcp brew install openjdk@21 maven python ghidraYou need: Java 25 LTS (OpenJDK recommended); Apache Maven 3.9+ for the python -m tools.setup commands below (Maven is their default backend). Not needed if you build with the committed Gradle wrapper instead — see step 6; Ghidra 12.2 (or compatible version)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit yesterday
- Stars
- 6,172
- +96 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v7.0.0
- Released 19 days ago
- Built with
- Java
- 69% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 12
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 88% closed
- 18 still open
- Pull requests
- 392 merged
- 4 waiting
- Releases
- 40
- 30+ in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Java 69%
- Python 30%
- PowerShell 1%
- Dockerfile <1%
Topics
- binary-analysis
- ghidra
- java
- mcp
- model-context-protocol
- python
- reverse-engineering
- static-analysis
- ai
- ghidra-extension
- mcp-server
Project record
- JobMCP servers
- StatusFeatured
- Commits1,363
- Forks382
- Watching25
- Stars in 28 days+666
- CreatedAug 30, 2025
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026