serena: A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities

by oraios · MCP Server · ★ 30.8k

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How to install serena

uvx --from git+https://github.com/oraios/serena serena start-mcp-server --help

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 60/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars30,804
Forks2,101
LanguagePython
CategoryMCP Server
Quality Score60/100
Open Issues124
Last Updated2026-10-28
Created2025-03-23
Platformsclaude-code, codex, mcp, python
Est. Tokens~16k

About serena

:rocket: Serena is a powerful coding agent toolkit capable of turning an LLM into a fully-featured agent that works directly on your codebase. Unlike most other tools, it is not tied to an LLM, framework or an interface, making it easy to use it in a variety of ways.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with serena for enhanced workflows:

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  • clauder — semantic(0.35)+complementary+same_lang+shared_platform (47%)
  • claude-code-settings — semantic(0.21)+complementary+same_lang+shared_platform (47%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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