Anthropic publishes Code Execution with MCP

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Published Code Execution with MCP — exposes MCP servers as code APIs so only the needed tool definitions are loaded. In the example, 150,000 → 2,000 tokens

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A structural fix for tool definitions eating up the context

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Officialanthropic.comhttps://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mcp

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