diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ for you.
 Note: For the Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL), you may need to adjust the path for the
 volume.
 
+## Running Tools Locally
+
+The Serena tools (and in fact all Serena code) can be executed without an LLM, and also without
+any MCP specifics (though you can use the mcp inspector, if you want).
+
+An example script for running tools is provided in [scripts/demo_run_tools.py](scripts/demo_run_tools.py).
+
 ## Adding a New Supported Language
 
 Serena interacts with code through language servers which are included in
diff --git a/scripts/demo_run_tools.py b/scripts/demo_run_tools.py
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+"""
+This script demonstrates how to use Serena's tools locally, useful
+for testing or development. Here the config is pointing to the serena repo itself,
+it assumes that you already have a serena_config.yml file setup.
+"""
+
+import json
+from pprint import pprint
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from serena.agent import *
+
+project_root = Path(__file__).parent.parent
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    agent = SerenaAgent(project_file_path=str(project_root / ".serena" / "project.yml"))
+    overview_tool = agent.get_tool(GetSymbolsOverviewTool)
+    find_symbol_tool = agent.get_tool(FindSymbolTool)
+    
+    print("Getting an overview of the util package\n")
+    pprint(json.loads(overview_tool.apply("src/serena/util")))
+    
+    print("\n\n")
+    
+    print("Finding the symbol 'SerenaAgent'\n")
+    pprint(json.loads(find_symbol_tool.apply("SerenaAgent")))
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