Serena MCP: Giving Your AI Coding Tools an IDE Brain

I&rsquo;ve been recommending Serena to everyone at work for a while, yet somehow never got around to trying it myself. I finally sat down with it on a hobby project - a TypeScript monorepo - and the results were good enough that I wanted to write it up. In short: it makes AI coding tools significantly smarter about your codebase, and it burns noticeably fewer tokens doing it. What is Serena MCP?…