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Enterprise-grade codebase intelligence for AI agents — hybrid semantic search over 40M+ LOC, locally.
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serena is an open-source dev tools project by oraios (oraios/serena on GitHub). It has 30,105 GitHub stars and 2,048 forks, is released under the GPL-3.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 8 October 2026.
Decide what you want to achieve with serena and check the README on GitHub for requirements before installing.
Clone the repository from GitHub (or take the packaged install route in step 3 if the README offers one).
Follow the project's documented install commands — the Run section below lists the exact ones — and add any required API keys or models.
Work through the README's quickstart example end to end, then adapt it to your own project or data.
Find symbols, references and implementations through language-server intelligence rather than grep.
Edit code at the symbol level — replace or insert bodies of functions and classes reliably.
Rename and move symbols with the language server keeping references consistent.
Includes interactive debugging capabilities for agent-driven investigation.
Project memories persist useful context across agent sessions.
Configurable per project and language, supporting many programming languages via their language servers.
Get the Serena source and documentation.
git clone https://github.com/oraios/serena.git
cd serenaSerena's only prerequisite is uv; install the tool as documented.
uv tool install -p 3.13 serena-agentRegister Serena as an MCP server in Claude Code, Codex or your client per the user guide, then open a project and let the agent explore it symbolically.
# see the Quick Start / User Guide in the README for your client's exact configserena is maintained by the oraios organization/account on GitHub, together with open-source contributors, in the public repository oraios/serena.
Yes — the code is open source under the GPL-3.0 license. You can use, modify and redistribute it under that license's terms.
Serena itself is free and open source; it enhances an existing coding agent, so you still need that agent's own model access (subscription or API key).
Text search misses semantic relationships; Serena's language-server backbone gives agents the same find-references and rename powers a human gets in an IDE.
Clone the repository from GitHub, follow the install commands in the Run section (taken from the project's README), and complete the documented quickstart example before adapting it to your own use case.
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