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This tutorial installs Serena with UV in a virtual environment on Ubuntu and connects it to an existing Hermes Agent installation. The speaker presents Serena as a way to give a coding assistant access to symbol searches, reference tracking and refactoring through language servers.
The setup explains two parts of the connection: LSP supplies code intelligence, while MCP lets the agent call Serena's tools. The speaker registers Serena as an MCP server in IDE assistant mode, scopes it to a local project folder and enables the discovered tools. Hermes saves the configuration in its config.yml file and finds the server when launched in the terminal. The speaker recommends the latest Hermes Agent release, but the transcript supplies no specific version number.
The tests use an existing Iron Ore application. First, the speaker asks for all references to the grade column. He reports that the response groups occurrences by role and identifies a faulty SQL join at line 123 involving a column absent from the table. He contrasts this result with a plain grep search; the demonstration does not establish that every language server can diagnose SQL strings this way.
A second prompt requests a rename of shipment summary to get tonnage by grade. The speaker reports one rename location and says the agent verified the edit. The walkthrough covers local tool setup, but does not specify the model backend or establish offline operation.
