Pi Network scraps the "No MCP" label: MCP is now officially integrated, using Codemode to bypass old issues.

Beating AI Express News: AI coding tool Pi has officially integrated MCP in its version 0.99.0. The original "No MCP" label on its official site was crossed out and updated to "Now with MCP+Codemode". Pi has long openly criticized common MCP integration approaches. Last year, developer Mario Zechner found in tests that Playwright MCP’s 21 tool descriptions take roughly 13,700 tokens, while Chrome DevTools MCP’s 26 tools occupy around 18,000 tokens. He argued that an overabundance of tools wastes context window space, is difficult to combine, and the large volume of returned content directly enters the model’s context. This time Pi adopted a different integration strategy: MCP tools are not exposed to the model by default, instead managed via Codemode. The model can write JavaScript to call, combine, and filter tools in parallel, only sending necessary results back to the context. Tools can also be loaded lazily, no need to declare all upfront. Pi team member Earendil has not retracted prior criticism, noting many MCP servers still overload with excessive tools and text results, and the tool combination issue remains unresolved. Pi now retains MCP’s general interface, while using Codemode to avoid the usage patterns it was most dissatisfied with before.