Welcome to Hex-Rays docs

Welcome to IDA docs

Tutorials, concepts, and references to guide you from your first disassembly to using IDA in your agentic workflows.

New to IDA? Go through the installation and kickstart your reverse engineering journey.

Install IDA

Get your IDA instance up and running on your local machine

Activate your license

Check how to activate your licenses and share them with your team members

Check basic features

Reverse your first binary file and discover the capabilities of disassembly and decompilation

Find call paths, trace cross-references, and jump anywhere in the database, fast.

Main UI components and navigation around IDA

START HERE

Human-readable assembly code

GO DEEPER

Pseudocode and microcode to power up your analysis

GO DEEPER

Local and remote dynamic analysis

GO DEEPER

The native tools for automating IDA and connecting it to AI agents: by script, by CI/CD pipeline, or from inside IDA.

Run IDA's analysis headlessly, from scripts and pipelines, to integrate IDA into your own toolchain.

An AI agent for reverse engineering, built directly into IDA.

The official Hex-Rays IDA MCP Server lets humans and AI agents collaborate on multiple IDA databases at once.

Modern command-line tool for downloading and installing IDA beyond the GUI: perfect for automated pipelines or Docker environments.

Pythonic and agent-friendly API, built on top of IDAPython. Approachable for newcomers, discoverable for agents.

Collaborate as a team on the same binary using the Teams add-on or share IDA access across multiple users.

Manage seats for a whole team, tracked by a central license server

Git-native solution for a collaborative analysis on the same database

Community-sourced function metadata, pulled from Hex-Rays' server or your private one

Check the latest updates in the Hex-Rays documentation.