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mongrelion · 2026-02-13T17:12:33 1771002753

This is definitely a cool finding.

Have you investigated more on this topic? like, anything similar in concept that competes with Serena? if so, have you tested it/them? what are your thoughts?

pmarreck · 2026-02-16T13:50:10 1771249810

I actually just enhanced my `codescan` project to exceed Serena in some ways

https://github.com/pmarreck/codescan

Essentially zero-install, no MCP, just tell your agent about its CLI, have Ollama running with a particular embeddings model and boom

now I just need to set up Github Actions (ugh) so people can actually download artifacts

tommica · 2026-02-13T06:22:50 1770963770

This is an interesting one - thanks for sharing!

pmarreck · 2026-02-16T13:51:12 1771249872

I actually just enhanced my `codescan` project to exceed Serena in some ways

https://github.com/pmarreck/codescan

Essentially zero-install, no MCP, just tell your agent about its CLI, have Ollama running with a particular embeddings model and boom

now I just need to set up Github Actions (ugh) so people can actually download artifacts