Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems

# Summary A development team demonstrated that using sandboxed scripts to process API data before passing results to AI agents reduces token consumption by 99.2% compared to making raw sequential tool calls. By running a production script (workflow-triage) that consolidates 26 API calls internally and returns only a distilled summary to the agent, they reduced context from ~815,000 tokens to ~6,450 tokens, cutting costs from $2.44 to $0.02 per operation.