Serena MCP: the IDE for your agent for Gemini CLI

io.github.oraios/serena

A powerful toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities.

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Install Serena MCP: the IDE for your agent in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "serena": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "serena-agent"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs