serena (oraios/serena) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 71 out of 100, grade C. It declares 45 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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serena

A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent

→ oraios/serena· listed on github_topic

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Who stands behind it

oraios

Source: github_topic · also listed on ModelScope, github_code, github_repo_search

Maintenance & responsiveness
as of 2026-08-19
Issue response: median 12h
Issues closed (90d): 40 · 111 open
Releases (90d): 5
Contributor retention: 2/6 stayed · 20 active
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GitHubModelScopenot scored here

The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// key findings
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Code appears obfuscated
1 file are unreadable to a human reviewer. Cannot audit what they do.
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You'll be asked for 1 credential: GITHUB_TOKEN
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configAL_EXTENSION_PATH
configELM_HOME
configMATLAB_EXTENSION_PATH
configJAVA_HOME
🔐 secretGITHUB_TOKEN
configPROGRAMFILES
configHADES_USER
configGITHUB_ACTIONS
configSERENA_USAGE_REPORTING
configCOMSPEC
configEDITOR
configSERENA_HOME
configUVX
configDISPLAY
configSSH_CONNECTION
configSSH_CLIENT
configCONTAINER
configWAYLAND_DISPLAY
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

45/45 tools missing one or more hints — serenafastmcp (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); executeshellcommand (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); opendashboard (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +42 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool test coverage

Only 2/45 tools referenced in tests (4%)

Write tests that reference each tool by name so every tool has at least one test.

Readable source code

1 file are minified or bundled, which is usually build output rather than concealment

Ship unminified, readable source.

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commit: e473dd64b5c01a01b9d93a456d6f5e64f6e43c8a
code hash: 47f267940d34b9443a28c860ae140edfb4ba1846f94e3542cb3e399067b99204
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