IDA Headless FAQs

Question 1

What is IDA Headless and its primary function?

Accepted Answer

IDA Headless is a server that orchestrates remote, concurrent binary analysis sessions using multiple headless IDA Pro instances, primarily through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Question 2

How does IDA Headless enable concurrent analysis?

Accepted Answer

It achieves multi-session concurrency by isolating each analysis task in its own dedicated Python worker and IDA Pro instance, ensuring stable and parallel processing across multiple binaries or sessions.

Question 3

What kind of analysis tasks can IDA Headless perform?

Accepted Answer

It offers 51 Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools for a wide range of binary analysis, including auto-analysis, function retrieval, pseudocode generation, and specialized support for Unity binaries via Il2CppDumper.

Question 4

What are the core technologies behind IDA Headless?

Accepted Answer

IDA Headless leverages Go for orchestrating sessions and workers, Python workers for IDA Pro operations via `idalib`, and Connect RPC for communication, exposing analysis capabilities via streamable HTTP and SSE.

Question 5

Who would benefit most from using IDA Headless?

Accepted Answer

Reverse engineers, security researchers, and developers requiring scalable, automated, and parallelized IDA Pro analysis, especially those integrating with MCP clients like Claude Desktop or custom scripting solutions.

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