Comparison
Claude Scholar vs rea
rea has more GitHub stars (288,843 vs 5,790). rea was updated more recently (last commit 1d ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Claude Scholar
Semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development. Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across ideation, coding,…
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/plugin marketplace add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar
rea
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
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npx -y rea-agents@latest analyze-javascript-application /absolute/path/to/app --json| Metric | Claude Scholar | rea |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | MCP server |
| GitHub stars | 5,790 | 288,843 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | +22,226 |
| Forks | 452 | 72,729 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | Python | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 3w ago | 1d ago |
| Created | Jan 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Categories | AI & LLM tooling, Docs & writing | AI & LLM tooling, Memory & knowledge |