serena-nav

serena-nav is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Maless88/Roadboard. It costs 57 tokens per session (446 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-navigation and editing aid that uses language-aware tools to understand symbols such as functions, classes, and types in a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding where symbols are defined, locating every usage, viewing a file’s structure, and editing code based on its meaning.
Why use it?
It helps avoid missing definitions or references that simple text searches can overlook, and makes structured code changes safer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Finding where symbols are defined, locating every usage, viewing a file’s structure, and editing code based on its meaning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maless88/roadboard/serena-nav
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Maless88/Roadboard --skill serena-nav
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Maless88/Roadboard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 446 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00057 $0.00446
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00223
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00045

Measured 7d ago against content hash c1aad9cf4797, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

serena-nav 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 7d 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.

packages/agent-skills/serena-nav/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Serena — semantic code navigation & editing

When Serena MCP is available it is the ONLY permitted tool for semantic navigation and structured edits.

Bootstrap (once per session)

  1. mcp__serena__check_onboarding_performed — verify Serena is active/onboarded on the current project.
  2. If not onboarded → mcp__serena__onboarding and wait for it to finish.
  3. If Serena is unavailable/errors → fall back to grep/Read but ANNOUNCE the degraded mode explicitly.

Prohibited (for code symbols)

  • grep / ripgrep / Grep to find definitions or usages of functions, classes, types, components.
  • cat / Read of a whole file just to locate a symbol.
  • find / Glob to discover where a type/function lives. These miss re-exports, trait impls, type aliases, barrel files, and produce line-fragile edits.

Required tools

Need Tool
Where a symbol is defined mcp__serena__find_symbol (include_body=false)
Body of a symbol mcp__serena__find_symbol (include_body=true)
Structure of a file mcp__serena__get_symbols_overview
All usages / call sites mcp__serena__find_referencing_symbols
Uncertain symbol name mcp__serena__search_for_pattern
Replace a symbol body mcp__serena__replace_symbol_body
Insert before/after a symbol mcp__serena__insert_before_symbol / insert_after_symbol

grep is allowed only for

Non-semantic searches: string literals, config keys, env var names, comments, file names, paths. Never for code symbols.

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. 7d ago First seen · 34 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A c1aad9cf4797

Subscribe to this mod's changes

serena-nav is a skill published in the GitHub repository Maless88/Roadboard (2 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 446 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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