Serena (Oraios) alternatives

LSP-backed MCP coding toolkit ('IDE for your agent') with a built-in project memory system for sharing knowledge across sessions, users and projects alongside AGENTS.md. Full Serena (Oraios) record →

  1. 1 Gemini CLI memory (save_memory / GEMINI.md) Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same storage (file) · same conflict handling (agent) · same memory unit (file) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 108k released 2026-10-21 Apache-2.0 Compare with Serena (Oraios) →

  2. 2 OWASP Agent Memory Guard Memory governance, privacy & safety

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (exact-match) · same memory unit (file) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed — MCP ? ★ 185 released 2026-08-25 Apache-2.0 Compare with Serena (Oraios) →

  3. 3 Replit Agent Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same storage (file) · same memory unit (document) · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Serena (Oraios) →

  4. 4 Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Coding-agent memory ⚠ stale — no commits since 2024-12

    also in Coding-agent memory · same storage (file) · same memory unit (document) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP — ★ 17k MIT Compare with Serena (Oraios) →

  5. 5 OpenAI Codex (cloud agent) Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same storage (file) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 128k released 2026-10-27 Apache-2.0 (Codex CLI; cloud agent proprietary) Compare with Serena (Oraios) →

  6. 6 Lovable Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same storage (file) · same memory unit (document) · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Serena (Oraios) →

  7. 7 Devin (Cognition) Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same storage (file) · same memory unit (document) · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Serena (Oraios) →

  8. 8 AGENTS.md File-backed / editor paradigms

    same storage (file) · same memory unit (document) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 25k MIT Compare with Serena (Oraios) →

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