How do I disable the logs opening on my browser?

[Aditeya]

Everytime the server starts up it opens the browser window with the logs. How do I disable this? I use Claude Desktop and Claude Code so it gets very annoying to deal with.

[MischaPanch]

You can set web_dashboard_open_on_launch to false in Serena's global configuration

Alternatively, pass --open-web-dashboard false when starting the MCP server.

[opcode81]

The browser tabs that are no longer needed close automatically, i.e. if you have multiple, then multiple Serena instances were spawned by your client and are still active.

[dbarnett]

Well yeah I was going to say they open a bunch and then usually close again, but not always… It would still be nice if instead of launching and then usually closing itself again when I do something trivial like claude /usage it would skip that whole dance.

[MischaPanch]

The proper solution would be for claude code to allow disabling MCP servers through its CLI. Alas, it currently doesn't (at least accorduing to the docs). I don't think we can do much to address this, we already provided multiple configuration options to disable the dashboard

[dbarnett]

K thanks, I just wanted to understand the "proper solution" but figured it involved fixing some gaps on Claude's side.

FWIW about this part:

and then usually close again, but not always...

I figured out that what's happening is when CC opens fresh and then selects a past conversation, it ends up spawning two MCPs and the first one doesn't get closed for some reason. With the CC VS Code extension it'll reopen to a previous conversation and tend to spawn those two together (and after rebooting or something I'll sometimes have several of those pairs spawn), so it gets quite confusing.

Anyway thanks for your help... I'll just deal with the ugliness for now and hope for UX improvements or tips to configure it better in the future.

[MischaPanch]

If you use serena in sse/http mode the server runs permanently and you won't have these issues. But you might not want to run it permanently, ofc