Serena is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the ide-editor sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/serena/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when: (1) Large codebase analysis (>50 files), (2) Symbol-level operations (find, rename, refactor), (3) Cross-file reference tracking, (4) Project memory and session persistence, (5) Multi-language semantic navigation. Triggers: "find symbol", "rename function", "find references", "symbol overview", "project memory".
The Serena skill is built for developers, power users, and teams automating repetitive workflows and improving developer experience. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/serena curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/serena/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/serena/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/serena/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/serena/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\serena\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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