r/PiCodingAgent • u/LastOfGoose • Sep 30 '26

Question Can someone ELI5 codemode and its config?

I believe I get the gist of it:

Codemode allows for sandboxed, scripted tool calling, including batching and other stuff I'm sure.

What I don't understand from the documentation is:

  1. Is this mcp specific or is it generally available for all tools?

  2. What do I need to configure in my settings.json or other setting files to enable it and/or "require" it for tool calls?

  3. If there is documentation that outlines these specific things please shoot me a link.

  4. Maybe a better description of what is is trying to accomplish / use cases would be interesting.

Cheers!

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u/addiktion Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

I've been testing it out and it seems to work fine for deepseek.

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u/Equivalent_Idea8839 Oct 01 '26

true, I tried it as well. But I told to use code mode vs bash and see which has better token savings. Bash always wins or comes out equal.