Serena

# LLM Integration Serena provides the necessary [tools](035_tools) for coding workflows, but an LLM is required to do the actual work, orchestrating tool use. In general, Serena can be integrated with an LLM in several ways: * by using the **model context protocol (MCP)**. Serena provides an MCP server which integrates with * Claude Code and Claude Desktop, * Terminal-based clients like Codex, Gemini-CLI, Qwen3-Coder, rovodev, OpenHands CLI and others, * IDEs like VSCode, Cursor or IntelliJ, * Extensions like Cline or Roo Code * Local clients like [OpenWebUI](https://docs.openwebui.com/openapi-servers/mcp), [Jan](https://jan.ai/docs/mcp-examples/browser/browserbase#enable-mcp), [Agno](https://docs.agno.com/introduction/playground) and others * by using [mcpo to connect it to ChatGPT](../03-special-guides/serena_on_chatgpt.md) or other clients that don't support MCP but do support tool calling via OpenAPI. * by incorporating Serena's tools into an agent framework of your choice, as illustrated [here](../03-special-guides/custom_agent). Serena's tool implementation is decoupled from the framework-specific code and can thus easily be adapted to any agent framework.