oraios/serena
An MCP toolkit that gives coding agents semantic code retrieval and editing: language-server-grade symbol operations instead of grep-and-pray. Agentiquette scores it 77/100 (A-tier), methodology v1.0, scored 2026-07-07.
Key facts
| Category | Tool collection (MCP) |
|---|---|
| License | MIT |
| Maintainer | Oraios AI |
| Compatible agents | claude-code, cursor, codex, generic |
| File patterns | |
| Triggering | manual-reference |
| GitHub metrics | 26,167 stars · 1,742 forks · 126 open issues (fetched 2026-07-07) |
| Last commit | 2026-07-06 |
| Created | 2025-03-23 |
Editorial analysis
A clear demonstration that tool quality bounds agent quality: the same model with symbol-level retrieval simply makes fewer wrong edits than one navigating by text search. The engineering is serious and the MCP packaging makes it portable across runtimes. The cost is setup complexity, which is honest: language servers were never free.
Risks
Language-server dependencies per language; setup complexity scales with your stack's breadth.
Evidence notes: Leverage: upgrades every coding task's floor. Reliability: LSP-backed operations are deterministic where grep is not. Composability: standard MCP, works across hosts. Eval readiness: edit correctness is checkable; no bundled eval suite.
Install and first run
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Is oraios/serena good?
oraios/serena scores 77/100 (A-tier) on Agentiquette's methodology v1.0, scored 2026-07-07. Strengths and weaknesses are in the editorial analysis; the score is explained dimension by dimension in the scorecard.
What is oraios/serena for?
An MCP toolkit that gives coding agents semantic code retrieval and editing: language-server-grade symbol operations instead of grep-and-pray.
Is oraios/serena maintained?
Last commit 2026-07-06, 126 open issues at fetch time (2026-07-07). Maintenance is scored at 88 of 100.
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