Serena vs Claude Code built-in tools

[agn-7]

Are there any advantages to use and setup Serena over Claude Code to use this MCP over Claude Code's grab and search built-in tools?

[Blakeem]

Serena requires less tokens to do edits or walk through the code. Because of this, you will have less context rot and better code quality. It makes it so I can do more work using Opus before being kicked to Sonnet.