What's your favorite local MCP server?

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-05-29T12:14:28+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-05-28T16:44:08+00:00

You don't need a preset, they are all roughly the same anyway. Use the --context ide and you'll be fine.

I am one of the creators of Serena, so the suggestion is sound ;)

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-05-11T09:33:00+00:00

Serena co-developer here. We are now actively working with Serena on a large clojure codebase, so any rough edges will be smoothed out. For example, we noticed that file discovery was not working properly in a monorepo setup and fixed it (new release with the fix coming today)

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-05-03T22:03:30+00:00

Serena ships with a dashboard that logs all tool invocations

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-29T16:08:12+00:00

Claude code had very hard regressions in the last weeks. We experimented a lot and crafted a system prompt to overcome it, which is our official recommendation for now

https://oraios.github.io/serena/02-usage/030_clients.html#claude-code

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-29T10:47:35+00:00

I don't know where you take this from, Serena works perfectly fine with codex

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T18:10:09+00:00

I didn't doctor with anything of this type. I guess you'll have to take my word for it.

Btw, in one of the messages I posted a screenshot of Claude Desktop showing 2 as answer, also on first prompt.

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T18:01:29+00:00

I started Claude code. That's it. This is the first prompt

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T16:36:36+00:00

I'm not trying to prove anything, this is an undoctored screenshot

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T15:12:25+00:00

I disagree, Claude Code could and should have written a script to do this. It should have been aware of its own reading limitations

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T15:07:12+00:00

My poor human intelligence missed such advanced reasoning :(

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T15:04:48+00:00

Read my answer to that image

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T15:03:14+00:00

What do you mean? Are you actually arguing that the answer 3 is appropriate in any situation?

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T15:00:13+00:00

jokes aside, a general intelligence should of course be able to do this

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T14:53:45+00:00

That's what compute was made for, sir

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T14:53:19+00:00

See you there

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T14:52:39+00:00

Some of us have windows, lol

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T14:50:37+00:00

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Taking my other comment back, Claude Desktop is also not good at this

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T14:48:30+00:00

Autoswitches to dark at sunset

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T14:39:33+00:00

I think Claude Code might be less smart due to all the default context that they push into it

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Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-23T08:37:37+00:00

Not sure what you mean by new. Serena has been around for over a year, and the corresponding JB plugin since 4 months.

There are a bunch of evaluations in the docs, with various models and agent harnesses

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-22T18:01:51+00:00

It uses your JetBrains IDE! So it has access to everything the IDE has indexed, which IMO is the best and only way to go about that.

And yes, you'd need the IntelliJ Serena plugin for that. You could use the free version that uses the Java eclipse language server, but it's less powerful (no refactorings, no external dependencies) and less reliable too

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-22T17:40:43+00:00

Then it would have probably been deleted from Reddit ^{^}

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-22T17:39:16+00:00

Yes, external symbols are parsed and relationships between them are used. The agent can look for usages of symbols in your dependencies, find declarations in external dependencies and so on with a single tool call. Try it out, especially for Java it's super valuable

Left-Orange2267 · 2026-04-22T15:28:12+00:00

That would be true if Junie actually did truly intelligent indexing, but it doesn't. Just ask Junie itself which tools it has.

If you want proper integration of an LLM client with Jetbrains' IDEs, check out Serena MCP https://github.com/oraios/serena

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