https://github.com/pmarreck/codescan
Essentially zero-install, no MCP, just tell your agent about its CLI, have Ollama running with a particular embeddings model and boom
now I just need to set up Github Actions (ugh) so people can actually download artifacts
Have you investigated more on this topic? like, anything similar in concept that competes with Serena? if so, have you tested it/them? what are your thoughts?
https://github.com/pmarreck/codescan
Essentially zero-install, no MCP, just tell your agent about its CLI, have Ollama running with a particular embeddings model and boom
now I just need to set up Github Actions (ugh) so people can actually download artifacts
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).
> grep def
Once you get to a codebase beyond a certain size, that no longer works.
I've for one found Serena https://github.com/oraios/serena , which you can install from right within Claude, to be a fairly fantastic code-interaction tool for LLM's. Both semantic search as well as editing. And with way less token churn.