Expose Idea's IntelliJence to AI Agents
We built a plugin to expose JetBrains' symbolic search and refactoring tools in an agent-friendly way via MCP. This means you can now give any agent advanced code intelligence, and do so in a way the agent can actually make proper use of.
You may already know that a JetBrains MCP server directly ships with the IDE, but (maybe somewhat surprisingly), it doesn't include any symbolic or refactoring functions apart from renaming and getting quick info.
By contrast, our integration includes symbolic search (including search in project dependencies), type hierarchy retrieval, reference and declaration search, move and inline symbol and several other useful symbolic tools.
The tools are exposed via an agent-first API that has been developed for over a year and was validated to work well for agents by tens of thousands of users - namely through the Serena MCP. We also performed formal validation by asking various agents how much they benefit from the addition of the new tools. Even Junie concluded that it would ask the user to add the new tools!
Check it out. The project:
https://github.com/oraios/serena
Evaluations:
https://oraios.github.io/serena/04-evaluation/000_evaluation-intro.html