serena — security grade SAFE, quality 60/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 60/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

by oraios · MCP Server · ★ 29.8k

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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. :wrench: Serena provides essential semantic code retrieval and editing tools that are akin to an IDE's capabilities, extracting code entities at the symbol level and exploiting relational structure. When combined with an existing coding agent, these tools greatly enhance (token) efficiency. :free: Serena is free & open-source, enhancing the capabilities of LLMs you already have access to free of charge. You can think of Serena as providing IDE-like tools to your LLM/coding agent. With it, the agent no longer needs to read entire files, perform grep-like searches or basic string replacements to find the right parts of the code and to edit code. Instead, it can use code-centric tools like , and . Serena is under active development! See the latest updates, upcoming features, and lessons learned to stay up to date. <img src="https://img.

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Quick Facts

Stars29,751
Forks2,030
LanguagePython
CategoryMCP Server
Quality Score59.9763815965215/100
Open Issues172
Last Updated2026-09-23
Created2025-03-23
Platformsclaude-code, codex, mcp, python
Est. Tokens~16k

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with serena for enhanced workflows:

  • Trellis — semantic(0.21)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (52%)
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  • oh-my-claudecode — semantic(0.22)+complementary+similar_pop+shared_platform (48%)
  • 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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Frequently Asked Questions

What is serena?

serena is A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 29.8k GitHub stars.

What programming language is serena written in?

serena is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as agent, ai, ai-coding.

How do I install or use serena?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the serena GitHub repository at github.com/oraios/serena. The project has 29.8k stars and 2030 forks, indicating an active community.

What are the best alternatives to serena?

The top alternatives to serena on Agent Skills Hub include ai-guide, superset, openpencil. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. 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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