serena-navigator

serena-navigator is a skill for Claude Code from anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins. It costs 69 tokens per session (404 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-navigation guide based on Serena's tools for understanding source code structure and symbols. Symbols are named parts of code such as functions and classes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for viewing a file's symbols, finding definitions, locating references, searching text, and reading only the needed sections.
Why use it?
It helps you locate relevant code and its usages without reading every file from start to finish.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the serena-integration plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins/serena-navigator
Any agent
npx skills add anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins --skill serena-navigator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install serena-integration, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for serena-navigator

README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 404 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00069 $0.00404
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00202
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00040

Measured 6d ago against content hash 84a4fb314edb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

serena-navigator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

serena-integration/skills/serena-navigator/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Serena Semantic Navigation

Token-Efficient Reading Pattern

Instead of reading entire files:

  1. Get overview first: get_symbols_overview(file) - See all functions/classes
  2. Locate specific symbol: find_symbol(name) - Get exact location
  3. Read targeted section: read_file(path, start_line, end_line) - Only what's needed

This pattern saves 90%+ tokens on large files.

Tool Selection Guide

Task Tool
See file structure get_symbols_overview(file_path)
Find definition find_symbol(name)
Find all usages find_referencing_symbols(symbol_name)
Search text/comments search_for_pattern(pattern)

Example Workflow: Understanding Code

1. get_symbols_overview("src/services/payment.py")
   → See PaymentProcessor class with all methods

2. find_symbol("process_payment")
   → Get exact location and signature

3. find_referencing_symbols("process_payment")
   → Find all call sites

4. read_file("src/services/payment.py", start_line=45, end_line=80)
   → Read only the relevant method

Use search_for_pattern for:

  • String literals and comments
  • Configuration values
  • Non-code patterns

Memory Integration

Check existing project knowledge:

list_memories()
read_memory("architecture_overview")

Save discoveries:

write_memory(key="architecture_overview", content="...")
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 66 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 84a4fb314edb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

serena-navigator is a skill published in the GitHub repository anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 404 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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