Improve init command: Report version, add final success message

Improve README:
 * Move LS deps back to prerequisites
 * Remove incorrect config path (redundant anyway, because user sees it upon init)
 * Some wording changes

Author: opcode81

README.md

@@ -176,24 +176,21 @@ https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6eaa9aa1-610d-4723-a2d6-bf1e487ba753
 
 ## Quick Start
 
-**Prerequisites**. Serena is managed by *uv*. If you don’t already have it, you need to [install uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) before proceeding.
+**Prerequisites**. Serena is managed by *uv*, and [installing uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) is the only required prerequisite for running Serena.
 
-**Initialize Serena**. To initialize Serena, simply run:
+> [!NOTE]
+> When using the language server backend, some additional dependencies may need to be installed to support certain languages;
+> see the [Language Support](https://oraios.github.io/serena/01-about/020_programming-languages.html) page for details.
+
+**Initialise Serena**. To initialise Serena and verify that your setup works correctly, simply run:
 
 ```bash
 uvx -p 3.13 --from git+https://github.com/oraios/serena serena init
 ```
 
-This will create the global configuration file `~/.serena/config.yaml`.
-
-The default code intelligence backend for Serena is the free LSP backend. You can add `-b JetBrains` to the `init` command
-to set up the JetBrains as the default code intelligence backend instead, see [JetBrains Plugin page](https://oraios.github.io/serena/02-usage/025_jetbrains_plugin.html) for more details.
-
-
-> [!NOTE]
-> When using the language server backend, some additional dependencies to be installed for certain languages; 
-> see the [Language Support](https://oraios.github.io/serena/01-about/020_programming-languages.html) page for details.
-
+By default, this will set up Serena to use the language server backend. To use the JetBrains backend instead, add the parameters `-b JetBrains` 
+(see the [JetBrains Plugin documentation page](https://oraios.github.io/serena/02-usage/025_jetbrains_plugin.html) for additional usage details).  
+Either way, you should receive a success message indicating that Serena has been initialised successfully.
 
 **Configuring Your Client**. To connect Serena to your preferred MCP client, you typically need to [configure a launch command in your client](https://oraios.github.io/serena/02-usage/030_clients.html).
 Follow the link for specific instructions on how to set up Serena for Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop, MCP-enabled IDEs and other clients (such as local and web-based GUIs). 

src/serena/cli.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 from sensai.util.string import dict_string
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
+from serena import serena_version
 from serena.agent import SerenaAgent
 from serena.config.context_mode import SerenaAgentContext, SerenaAgentMode
 from serena.config.serena_config import (
@@ -90,9 +91,6 @@ def ancestors() -> Iterator[Path]:
     return None
 
 
-# --------------------- Utilities -------------------------------------
-
-
 def _open_in_editor(path: str) -> None:
     """Open the given file in the system's default editor or viewer."""
     editor = os.environ.get("EDITOR")
@@ -169,13 +167,14 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
         show_default=True,
         help="Default code intelligence backend (can be overridden in the project config).",
     )
-    def init(language_backend: Literal["LSP", "JetBrains"] = "LSP"):
+    def init(language_backend: Literal["LSP", "JetBrains"] = "LSP") -> None:
+        click.echo(f"\nSerena version: {serena_version()}\n")
         serena_config = SerenaConfig.from_config_file()
         serena_config.language_backend = LanguageBackend(language_backend)
         serena_config.save()
-        click.echo(
-            f"Initialized Serena with default backend: {language_backend}.\nFind the global Serena config in:\n   {serena_config.config_file_path}"
-        )
+        click.echo(f"Configuration file: {serena_config.config_file_path}")
+        click.echo(f"Language backend: {language_backend}")
+        click.echo("\nSerena has been initialised successfully.\n")
 
     @staticmethod
     @click.command("start-mcp-server", help="Starts the Serena MCP server.", context_settings={"max_content_width": _MAX_CONTENT_WIDTH})