# AI Rebuilds

> A website and GitHub list of 81 projects that rebuild existing software or games without the original source: AI-built clean-room apps such as the ArtCraft suite, software rewritten with coding agents, AI-assisted game decompilations, game engine reimplementations, human-led decompilations and ports, clean-room classics such as Wine and ReactOS, and tools for rebuilders. Each entry says what it rebuilds and carries a method label and an AI-involvement label, and the site can be searched, filtered and sorted by stars or recent activity. A separate guide describes a clean-room rebuild workflow with REA.

- Type: Collection
- Targets: App · Binary · Game
- Category: Related resource lists
- Relationship: Community REA learning resource
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-02
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-04
- Original resource: <https://ai-rebuilds.com/>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds/blob/8092b23421fca9c8c4c52d51e34d4dc602f95923/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ai-rebuilds-directory/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ai-rebuilds-directory/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ai-rebuilds-directory/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Scope:** At commit 8092b23, data/projects.json (list updated 2026-10-29, GitHub figures refreshed 2026-11-02) holds 81 projects in seven categories and generates both the README and ai-rebuilds.com.
- **Scope:** Method labels are clean-room, reimplementation, decompilation, recompilation, port, rewrite or tool. AI labels (built, assisted, none or unknown) follow each project's own description, and 49 entries are labelled with no AI involvement. A weekly workflow refreshes stars, last-push dates, archive status and licences from the GitHub API and checks links. Entries may not distribute the original's code, binaries, ROMs or assets; the site hosts no software and takes fix and removal requests.
- **Attribution:** REA is listed first among 13 tools, and only the DX-Ball entry is described as using it. The site's third-party guide “Rebuild something with REA” covers installing rea-agents, choosing REA tools by input type, a two-agent clean-room split and checks against the original; its Node.js minimums (22.19+, 24.11+ or 26+) are older than the 22.23.4+, 24.22.1+ or 26.12.1+ that REA's README now requires.
- **License:** MIT for the code and the list; the LICENSE excludes original games, their code and assets. Descriptions are the site's own, and the lists it drew entries from are credited, among them CC BY-SA 4.0 and CC0 lists.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds/blob/8092b23421fca9c8c4c52d51e34d4dc602f95923/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds/blob/8092b23421fca9c8c4c52d51e34d4dc602f95923/data/projects.json>
3. <https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds/blob/8092b23421fca9c8c4c52d51e34d4dc602f95923/CONTRIBUTING.md>
4. <https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds/blob/8092b23421fca9c8c4c52d51e34d4dc602f95923/LICENSE>
5. <https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds/blob/8092b23421fca9c8c4c52d51e34d4dc602f95923/.github/workflows/refresh.yml>
6. <https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds/blob/8092b23421fca9c8c4c52d51e34d4dc602f95923/guide/index.html>
7. <https://ai-rebuilds.com/guide/>
8. <https://github.com/morluto/rea/blob/2cb29693c3d574c4898832047fe309ac1ad00e9d/README.md>

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## About this entry

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