ida-pro-mcp

Overview

The ida-pro-mcp server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows AI assistants and agents to interact directly with IDA Pro, the industry-standard interactive disassembler and reverse-engineering platform. It enables AI-driven workflows to inspect binaries, analyze disassembly, explore functions and symbols, and reason about program structure — all from within an MCP-compatible assistant.

This server is especially useful for reverse engineering, malware analysis, vulnerability research, and low-level software analysis workflows where deep binary insight is required.

Transport

stdio

Tools

• check_connection
• get_metadata
• get_function_by_name
• get_function_by_address
• get_current_address
• get_current_function
• convert_number
• list_functions
• list_globals_filter
• list_globals
• list_strings_filter
• list_strings
• list_local_types
• decompile_function
• disassemble_function
• get_xrefs_to
• get_xrefs_to_field
• get_entry_points
• set_comment
• rename_local_variable
• rename_global_variable
• set_global_variable_type
• rename_function
• set_function_prototype
• declare_c_type
• set_local_variable_type
• dbg_get_registers
• dbg_get_call_stack
• dbg_list_breakpoints
• dbg_start_process
• dbg_exit_process
• dbg_continue_process
• dbg_run_to
• dbg_set_breakpoint
• dbg_delete_breakpoint
• dbg_enable_breakpoint

Key Capabilities

• Binary introspection — Analyze executable files and libraries at the instruction and function level.
• Disassembly and decompilation access — Retrieve assembly and higher-level representations for reasoning and explanation.
• Program structure analysis — Understand functions, call graphs, symbols, and memory layout.
• Malware and vulnerability research — Support AI-assisted analysis of suspicious or complex binaries.
• Reverse engineering workflows — Enable conversational exploration of unfamiliar binaries.

How It Works

The ida-pro-mcp server runs inside or alongside an IDA Pro environment and connects AI clients to IDA’s internal APIs through the MCP protocol. Once configured, the server exposes analysis data from the currently loaded binary in a structured form that AI assistants can reason over.

AI clients can request information about program structure, functions, symbols, and code regions as part of broader reasoning workflows. The server mediates access to IDA’s analysis database and returns normalized results without requiring the assistant to understand IDA’s scripting APIs directly.

By abstracting IDA Pro behind MCP, the server allows AI-driven reverse-engineering workflows — such as explaining what a function does, tracing execution paths, or summarizing binary behavior — to happen conversationally and programmatically within a single environment.