capa: Adding Ghidra Explorer Plugin

[p5amruta]

Hi @mike-hunhoff ,

I am interested in contributing to the project "capa: Adding Ghidra Explorer Plugin" for Google Summer of Code 2025.

I have experience with Python, GitHub, and reverse engineering, and I am eager to learn more about Ghidra and its plugin development. My goal is to design an extensible and efficient Ghidra plugin that seamlessly integrates capa’s capability detection. I plan to focus on:

Developing an intuitive GUI to display capa results, including a hierarchical tree view of detected capabilities.
Implementing smooth navigation between capa results and Ghidra’s disassembly and decompiler views.
Optimizing performance when analyzing large binaries by handling capa results efficiently within Ghidra.
I would love to contribute an initial patch to familiarize myself with the codebase. Could you please provide some guidance on how to get started?

I look forward to your response!

Thank you!
Amrutha

[mike-hunhoff]

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