oraios/serena
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A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent
19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2025-04-03 · latest 2026-08-29
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OpenCode IDE + Serena MCP (for the indexing part) [1] https://opencode.ai/ [2] https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by KoftaBob · 2026-08-29 · in Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX -
…. It's a good idea which is why it's already been invented. There's even wrappers for it like https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by killingtime74 · 2026-08-23 · in What if coding agents didn't have to read code? -
…there a 'move this function from this file to this file' tool (copy/paste char range) There Is: https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by senand · 2026-07-29 · in Interview with Boris Cherny [video] -
You should add Serena https://github.com/oraios/serena to your list. Serena gives you symbol-level navigation, reading, and editing via tree-sitter. So you're already getting much of what CoderLM offers — plus Serena has editing…
comment by ipiyer · 2026-04-06 · in Ask HN: SoTA of Context Building Methods -
how does lumen differ from serena? https://github.com/oraios/serena curious about it seems promising
comment by hmokiguess · 2026-04-03 · in Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE) -
I had great results using this for the past few months, it’s the same idea but implemented as an MCP: https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by dayglo · 2026-03-02 · in Claude Code LSP -
Can you share how it compares to Serena? https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by CharlesW · 2026-02-23 · in Show HN: CS – indexless code search that understands code, comments and strings -
…Once you get to a codebase beyond a certain size, that no longer works. I've for one found Serena https://github.com/oraios/serena , which you can install from right within Claude, to be a fairly fantastic code-interaction tool for LLM's.…
comment by pmarreck · 2026-02-13 · in Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed -
…of LSP (via a plugin), solving exactly this issue. LSP will never be as good as JetBrains' parsers. https://github.com/oraios/serena#the-serena-jetbrains-plugin
comment by MischaPanch · 2025-12-27 · in Claude Code gets native LSP support -
…on their mind for _a while_ those wanting lsp support in the loop have been using things such as: https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by grimgrin · 2025-12-22 · in Claude Code gets native LSP support -
…of helping solve this issue. But this has been an obvious built in for agents for some time now. https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by mmaunder · 2025-12-22 · in Claude Code gets native LSP support -
How does it compare to Serena MCP? :) https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by mike1505 · 2025-12-08 · in Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents -
…OpenCode from the CLI side etc. etc. From the MCP side, there are large community efforts such as https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by jaen · 2025-11-23 · in Agent design is still hard -
You might get better results with https://github.com/oraios/serena I sometimes use it, but I've found just adding to my claude.md something like "if you ever refactor code, try search around the codebase to see if their is an existing…
comment by thomasfromcdnjs · 2025-10-16 · in Claude Haiku 4.5 -
…here. I've been using GCF1 with opencode and getting good results. I also started using [Serena]( https://github.com/oraios/serena ), which has been really helpful in a large codebase. It gives you better search than plain grep, so you can…
comment by xwowsersx · 2025-09-29 · in Claude Sonnet 4.5 -
…upon Claude Code is something that can provide better tools to Claude Code. I'm very happy with https://github.com/oraios/serena for now. It adds some extra tools and LSP access, which in an ideal world would save tokens and time by…
comment by grim_io · 2025-08-23 · in DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding -
You're looking for Serena: https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by ChickeNES · 2025-08-18 · in MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code -
https://github.com/oraios/serena
comment by ekusiadadus · 2025-08-18 · in Ask HN: Efficient way of feeding documentation into LLM? -
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Free to Use Alternative to Cursor, Claude Code, Cline etc.story by MischaPanch · 2025-04-03 · 1 comment