Code Execution with MCP: How "Code Mode" Cuts Agent Token Costs 90%+

1Key Takeaways

• Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
• What you need to know There is a quiet tax buried inside almost every agent you have built on the Model Context Protocol, and most teams only notice it when the invoice arrives.
• Each tool you connect ships its full schema into the model's context.
• Each tool call the model makes returns a result that also passes back through context.