Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct caught in think_about_* loops quickly

[mkiesel]

I'm playing with (Unsloth) Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct and Serena, and Qwen gets hung up in think_about_collected_information - think_about_task_adherence - think_about_collected_information - ... loops very quickly. For testing, I tried disabling those tools in .serena/project.yml, but they get called quite frequently anyways, erroring out, then getting retried. Not sure where to go from here. Is there a way to hide tools completely, or would it be an option to make disabled tools return something neutral rather than an error?

[MischaPanch]

If you disable them on the project level, they will still form part of the mcp tools but just be disabled internally. Instead you should create a custom context and disable the tools there, then Qwen won't think that they exist and won't try calling them

[MischaPanch]

btw, if you disable them through serena_config.yml you'll have the same effect

[mkiesel]

Thanks, that was quick! That seems to work better. I'll investigate a bit more, Qwen3 doesn't really play nice at the moment. It gets stuck in loops pretty much always at the moment (e.g., read file, make a change, read file, read same file, read same file...).

[MischaPanch]

Btw, if you have good results with the custom context, you could consider making a PR with qwen-coder context so that we can recommend it to other users for qwen