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oraios/serena

Name: oraios/serena
Author: Various

A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent

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About oraios/serena

Serena is an MCP toolkit written in Python that provides semantic retrieval and code editing capabilities for AI agents. It functions as an integrated development environment layer, enabling agents to search, understand, and modify code through natural language interfaces.

Best for

Developers building AI agents that need to understand and modify code programmatically

Use cases

Semantic code search across large codebases
Automated code refactoring and editing by agents
Context-aware code retrieval for agent reasoning

Notes

24,823 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed MIT.

Pros

Semantic understanding of code rather than keyword matching
Direct integration with MCP protocol for agent workflows
Handles both retrieval and editing in one toolkit

Cons

Python-only implementation limits language support
Requires MCP-compatible agent framework to function
Limited documentation on performance at scale

Key facts

What we have checked

Not checked yet. Dated facts such as prices, releases and repository activity appear here once we have confirmed them from a source.

How to use

How to set it up

As the listing publishes it. We have not run this install.

Tools exposed

Capability
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Clients the listing names (not checked here)

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code

Install

Add oraios/serena to your client

Not verified yet

Our lab has not run this server yet. "Config checked" on a client means the recipe matches that client's documented config format; it does not mean we ran it.

Claude Code

Config checked

Run in your terminal (runs on your computer)

claude mcp add --transport stdio oraios-serena -- uvx -p 3.13 start-mcp-server --project-from-cwd --context desktop-app serena-agent@1.5.3

Version 1.5.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Claude Code's config docs

Claude Desktop

Config checked

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (runs on your computer)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oraios-serena": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "-p",
        "3.13",
        "start-mcp-server",
        "--project-from-cwd",
        "--context",
        "desktop-app",
        "serena-agent@1.5.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Version 1.5.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Claude Desktop's config docs

Cursor

Config checked

Add to .cursor/mcp.json (runs on your computer)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oraios-serena": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "-p",
        "3.13",
        "start-mcp-server",
        "--project-from-cwd",
        "--context",
        "desktop-app",
        "serena-agent@1.5.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Version 1.5.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Cursor's config docs

VS Code

Config checked

Add to .vscode/mcp.json (runs on your computer)

{
  "servers": {
    "oraios-serena": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "-p",
        "3.13",
        "start-mcp-server",
        "--project-from-cwd",
        "--context",
        "desktop-app",
        "serena-agent@1.5.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Version 1.5.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against VS Code's config docs

Codex

Config checked

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml (runs on your computer)

[mcp_servers.oraios-serena]
command = "uvx"
args = ["-p", "3.13", "start-mcp-server", "--project-from-cwd", "--context", "desktop-app", "serena-agent@1.5.3"]

Version 1.5.3 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Codex's config docs

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Works with

What oraios/serena connects to

5 clients, each with how we know and when we checked.

Works with	Type	How we know	Checked
Claude Code	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.5.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026Claude Code docs
Claude Desktop	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.5.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026Claude Desktop docs
Cursor	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.5.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026Cursor docs
VS Code	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.5.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026VS Code docs
Codex	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRuns locally, version 1.5.3Config checked	24 Oct 2026Codex docs

Health and security

Is oraios/serena looked after, and what do its setup files show

Security check static checks

97 out of 100

Reads what is published about the server: package advisories, licence, secrets in the documented setup and tool permissions. Nothing is installed or run, so this is not a security assessment. Checked 24 Oct 2026 by edna-static-v1. What it checks

Licence: NOASSERTION

Low The repository has a licence file GitHub cannot match to a standard licence. Read it before relying on the server.
Note No published npm or PyPI package of this repository was found, so package advisories were not checked.
Note The lab has not recorded this server's tool list yet, so tool permissions were not checked.

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Sources

Where this comes from

No sources recorded yet. Each source we check is listed here with the date we checked it.

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What changed

No changes recorded yet. Releases, price changes and deprecations appear here, with their dates, once we track them for this record.

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oraios/serena

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About oraios/serena

Best for

Use cases

Notes

What we have checked

How to set it up

Add oraios/serena to your client

Claude Code

Claude Desktop

Cursor

VS Code

Codex

What oraios/serena connects to

Is oraios/serena looked after, and what do its setup files show

Alternatives to oraios/serena

Compare oraios/serena side by side

Where this comes from

What changed

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