# plasma-disassembler/plasma

Plasma is an interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS. It can generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax.

Repository: https://github.com/plasma-disassembler/plasma
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/plasma
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: reverse-engineering, disassembler, capstone, x86, x86-64, mips, arm
Last push: 2021-08-31T16:57:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4195, "days_push": 1828, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3072, forks 271 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:41.639877+00:00)

## What it is
Plasma is an interactive disassembler for x86/x86-64, ARM, and MIPS binaries that generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax. It supports ELF, PE, and RAW formats and offers a Python API for scripting analysis tasks.

## Use cases
- disassemble a binary and view readable pseudo-code
- reverse engineer malware or firmware for x86, ARM, or MIPS
- analyze ELF and PE executables interactively in a terminal
- write Python scripts to find strings, crypto constants, or cross-references in a binary
- invert conditional jumps to reshape a function's control flow graph
- assemble and disassemble raw instruction buffers from the CLI

## When to choose
- you need a free, scriptable terminal-based disassembler for x86, ARM, or MIPS
- you want pseudo-decompiled views of functions without paying for IDA Pro
- you want to automate binary analysis with a Python API

## When to avoid
- you need full decompilation with structures and type definitions, which are not implemented
- you need robust ARM/MIPS support, which is only partial
- you need a maintained tool with recent releases and active development

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: reverse-engineering, parser, developer-tools
- domain: reverse-engineering, security, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli
- tags: disassembler, capstone, x86, arm, mips, pseudo-decompiler, interactive, linux

## Member repositories
- plasma-disassembler/plasma (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.639877+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:27:59.126511+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/plasma-disassembler/plasma (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.639877+00:00, sha 6420f2be6002)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.