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Has anyone had success getting a coding agent to use an IDE's built-in refactoring tools via MCP especially for things like project-wide rename? Last time I loo

Has anyone had success getting a coding agent to use an IDE's built-in refactoring tools via MCP especially for things like project-wide rename? Last time I looked into this the agents I tried just did regex find/replace across the repo, which feels both error-prone and wasteful of tokens. I haven't revisited recently so I'm curious what's possible now.

petesergeant 1y ago
That's interesting, and I haven't, but as long as the IDE has an API for the refactoring action, giving an agent access to it as a tool should be pretty straightforward. Great idea.
olejorgenb 1y ago
Serena MCP does this approach IIRC