Disclosure: I maintain pyobfus and the pyobfus-mcp server. Why I built pyobfus Story starts about six months back. Cardiac imaging research project. Real patent filings in flight, software-copyright applications half-submitted, the kind of work where the lawyers actually read commit messages. The team needed algorithm modules they could hand to outside collaborators as binaries, no readable source. Python, naturally. Every research project is Python now. So: an obfuscator. PyArmor is the answer when you ask the internet. Fine. Installed PyArmor. Ran it through the test suite, ran it through the build pipeline, shipped the binaries. Worked great. For about two weeks.…