chore(serena): track the shared Serena project config - #261
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Serena is an MCP server that runs real language servers (TypeScript + Kotlin) and exposes symbol-level tools, so an agent can fetch one function body instead of reading a 3,809-line file, and get resolved call graphs instead of grep hits that include comments and strings. Tracking project.yml means a new machine gets the same language-server set and gitignore behavior without re-deriving it. Serena's own .serena/.gitignore keeps the ~43 MB symbol cache and the local-override file untracked, so this adds two small text files and nothing generated. Portability checked: project.yml carries no absolute or machine-specific paths. Setup recipe, scoping gotchas, and the tool table live in the workspace repo at docs/code-intelligence.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.serena/project.yml+ Serena's own.serena/.gitignore(2 small text files).Serena is an MCP server that runs real language servers and exposes symbol-level tools —
find_symbol,find_referencing_symbols,get_symbols_overview. It lets an agent fetch one function body instead of readingipc-handlers.ts(3,809 lines) orApp.tsx(3,544), and get resolved call graphs instead of grep hits that include comments and strings.Why track it
A new machine gets the same language-server set (TypeScript + Kotlin) and gitignore behavior without re-deriving it — the same reason
.claude/rules/is tracked here.What is not tracked
Serena self-manages
.serena/.gitignore, which excludes:cache/— the ~43 MB symbol index (generated, machine-local)project.local.yml— per-developer overridesVerification
project.ymlcarries no absolute or machine-specific paths (grep -nE "/home/|/Users/|C:|destin"→ no matches)Setup recipe and scoping gotchas live in the workspace repo at
docs/code-intelligence.md. Notably: Serena must be scoped toyoucoded/, not the workspace root — the workspace.gitignoreexcludes every sub-repo, so aiming it there indexes nothing while appearing to succeed.🤖 Generated with Claude Code