@pmarreck, Serena developer here. We invite you to contribute to Serena in order to make it better. Serena is free & open-source, and it already robustly addresses the key issues preventing coding agents from being truly efficient even in complex software development projects (while being highly configurable).
We don't believe CLI is the way to go though, because advanced code intelligence simply cannot be spawned on the fly and thus benefits from a stateful process (such as a language server or an IDE instance).
We don't believe CLI is the way to go though, because advanced code intelligence simply cannot be spawned on the fly and thus benefits from a stateful process (such as a language server or an IDE instance).