Serena
by oraios
A powerful coding agent toolkit providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities (MCP server & other integrations)
No known CVEs
MIT license
Actively maintained
Last commit 10d ago
Works with most clients
Transport: stdio
3 tools · ~126 tok
Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx
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Serena is an MCP server that a powerful coding agent toolkit providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities (MCP server & other integrations). Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio, requires no API key, and scores 77/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.
Step 1
Install in your client
Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.
CD
Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+
Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"serena": {
"args": [
"-p",
"3.13",
"--from",
"git+https://github.com/oraios/serena",
"serena",
"start-mcp-server"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
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What Serena does
Serena provides essential semantic code retrieval, editing, refactoring and debugging tools that are akin to an IDE's capabilities, operating at the symbol level and exploiting relational structure. It integrates with any client/LLM via the model context protocol (MCP).
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Security
OSV.devNo known CVEs.
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~126 tokens total
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Serena safe to use?
- Serena has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
- How do I install Serena?
- Serena supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
- What can Serena do?
- Serena provides 3 tools: find_symbol, find_referencing_symbols, insert_after_symbol. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
- What AI clients work with Serena?
- Serena is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
- Is Serena actively maintained?
- Serena is actively maintained — last commit was 10 days ago. It has 28,602 GitHub stars.
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