Introduction to Looker Code Mode MCP
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Today we're introducing the lkr code-mode MCP server to allow your LLM to orchestrate all of Looker API's in a simple interface. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a great way to connect AI agents to external tools. But as agents connect to bigger APIs, we run into a big problem: context bloat. Looker actually tried to fix this by creating a trimmed-down version of its MCP that exposes only a few select APIs. But that's pretty limiting if you want to build complex workflows and those workflows require many back and forth tool calls. Code Mode flips this on the head, the LLM writes code to orchestrate the entire workflow in one go; that's why developers are moving towards Code Mode for these use cases.