REA

Use REA when a claim depends on a shipped binary or package, decompilation, passive application runtime evidence, or comparison with behavior not established by available source. For ordinary analysis of a complete source repository, use normal repository tools and do not run REA readiness or provider commands.

Connect only when needed

In Hermes this skill ships inside the rea plugin, and the same plugin registers the REA MCP server (rea-agents@6.7.0, stdio over npx). Nothing else needs registering: never run rea-agents setup, rea setup or hermes mcp add rea. Setup would add a second mcp_servers.rea entry to config.yaml that replaces the plugin's server and its pinned version.