Serena Symbol Navigation

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Serena transforms Claude into a symbol-aware coding agent by integrating Language Server Protocol (LSP) capabilities directly into the workflow. It allows for deep semantic analysis across 30+ programming languages, enabling users to locate definitions, track every reference of a symbol across a codebase, and perform surgical code insertions with IDE-like precision. This skill is essential for navigating complex, multi-file projects where simple text search is insufficient for understanding code relationships, inheritance hierarchies, and scope-specific dependencies.

Key Features

• Comprehensive reference tracking to identify all call sites and usages project-wide
• Advanced refactoring support for renaming symbols and performing impact analysis
• Surgical code insertion and modification that respects scope and indentation
• Symbol-level discovery for classes, functions, and variables across 30+ languages
• Deep semantic understanding via LSP integration including Pyright, gopls, and rust-analyzer
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Use Cases

• Navigating large codebases by tracing function definitions and usage hierarchies across files
• Identifying and removing dead code by verifying the absence of symbol references
• Performing safe refactors by analyzing the impact of signature changes across multiple modules