REA doubles to 380,000 stars in twelve days
The MCP server that hands agents Ghidra, APK, firmware and network capture tools went from 188,986 stars on 13 October to 380,818 on 25 October.
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October 2026
Milestone Guide Every server a robot vacuum talks to, found in ten minutes
One prompt to Claude Code lists the servers the vacuum calls, what each one receives, and gives a switch to cut the ones its owner never agreed to.
Guide One prompt finds every device on the Wi-Fi, one chat runs them
Run from a computer on the home network, Claude Opus 5.5 found the devices on the Wi-Fi and wired them into a single chat. The post shares the prompt, step by step.
Guide A Samsung TV that opens Netflix on one spoken sentence
Its owner reverse engineered the TV with Opus 5.5 so their assistant drives it like Jarvis: say one sentence and Netflix opens and scrolls itself, no remote.
Data “Don't reverse engineer it twice”: an index of 16,811 repos
Awesome Reverse-Engineered lists the repos that exist because someone took apart an app, a device, a format or a game. CC0 data, refreshed every night, with a skill for agents. The projects on Hard Hub come from it.
Launch House Control: the home in 3D, driven by any assistant
A Mac and iPhone app that draws the home from one floor plan file and drives lights and air conditioners through Tuya, Home Assistant, Hue and Apple Home. Assistants plug in over MCP.
Launch Meta opens Muse Gadgets, with 43 device guides for agents
An ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK to build gadgets for the Muse assistant, and a skills folder: one Markdown guide per device family, telling an agent how to find the device, set it up and check the result.
July 2026
Data Home Assistant starts a Wikipedia of smart home devices
Built from data that Home Assistant installs share by choice since 2026.2: for each device, whether it needs the internet, and which integrations and protocols it uses.