Kilocode's coding agent writes JavaScript to call MCP tools

Kilocode's coding agent can now write JavaScript that calls MCP tools directly, per the v7.7.4 release notes, published September 18.

Connecting 40 MCP servers to Kilocode can fill a model's context window with tool definitions before a user sends a single message. Kilocode's fix, called code mode, discovers tools on demand instead of loading every definition upfront, so fewer of them reach the model at all.

The feature runs inside a confined JS program and stays off unless a user turns it on, either through a setting or the KILO_EXPERIMENTAL_CODE_MODE environment variable.

The same release also stops prompting for sandbox escape on read-only git and gh commands.

It rewrites the escalation prompt too. The old wording implied a narrower grant than users were giving. The new text says plainly that approving a command runs it entirely outside the sandbox, for that command only, and that Bash allow rules never cover it.