From 47cdb297edd80d1147154616e68da6b1f5ea2002 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominik Jain <dominik.jain@oraios-ai.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:01:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve symbolic tool class docstrings to make the symbolic
 backend clear

---
 src/serena/tools/jetbrains_tools.py | 6 +++---
 src/serena/tools/symbol_tools.py    | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/serena/tools/jetbrains_tools.py b/src/serena/tools/jetbrains_tools.py
index db3a97c7..93de446e 100644
--- a/src/serena/tools/jetbrains_tools.py
+++ b/src/serena/tools/jetbrains_tools.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from serena.tools.jetbrains_plugin_client import JetBrainsPluginClient
 
 class JetBrainsFindSymbolTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead, ToolMarkerOptional):
     """
-    Performs a global (or local) search for symbols with/containing a given name/substring (optionally filtered by type).
+    Performs a global (or local) search for symbols using the JetBrains backend
     """
 
     def apply(
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class JetBrainsFindSymbolTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead, ToolMarkerOptional):
 
 class JetBrainsFindReferencingSymbolsTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead, ToolMarkerOptional):
     """
-    Finds symbols that reference the given symbol
+    Finds symbols that reference the given symbol using the JetBrains backend
     """
 
     def apply(
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class JetBrainsFindReferencingSymbolsTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead, ToolMark
 
 class JetBrainsGetSymbolsOverviewTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead, ToolMarkerOptional):
     """
-    Retrieves an overview of the top-level symbols within a specified file
+    Retrieves an overview of the top-level symbols within a specified file using the JetBrains backend
     """
 
     def apply(
diff --git a/src/serena/tools/symbol_tools.py b/src/serena/tools/symbol_tools.py
index bd31fc48..bddb749c 100644
--- a/src/serena/tools/symbol_tools.py
+++ b/src/serena/tools/symbol_tools.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class GetSymbolsOverviewTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead):
 
 class FindSymbolTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead):
     """
-    Performs a global (or local) search for symbols with/containing a given name/substring (optionally filtered by type).
+    Performs a global (or local) search using the language server backend.
     """
 
     # noinspection PyDefaultArgument
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class FindSymbolTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead):
 
 class FindReferencingSymbolsTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead):
     """
-    Finds symbols that reference the symbol at the given location (optionally filtered by type).
+    Finds symbols that reference the given symbol using the language server backend
     """
 
     # noinspection PyDefaultArgument
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ class FindReferencingSymbolsTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicRead):
 
 class ReplaceSymbolBodyTool(Tool, ToolMarkerSymbolicEdit):
     """
-    Replaces the full definition of a symbol.
+    Replaces the full definition of a symbol using the language server backend.
     """
 
     def apply(