So... What exactly is it in the end? I try to parse the long prose, and couldn't.

It doesn't help that the article is titled "What is Codemode" and then goes to say "If you are not familiar with Codemode, it’s basically just...". You article is supposed to say what it is without anyone being familiar with it.

Like what does this passage even mean:

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For instance if you issue a bash call as a regular tool call in the LLM, then we only throw the trailing 2000 lines into the context and if the agent wants more, it needs to look at the overflow file itself. If however the agent issues that invocation via Codemode, then the Codemode side gets larger outputs sent structurally.

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Unfortunately if you're not in the deep end when it comes to these tools, your brain will only be able to parse gibberish.

I was expecting a bit more care from Armin in explaining what does codemode actually do, from first principles.

> Like what does this passage even mean:

It means that a LLM side tool (bash) can expose larger (and structured) outputs to Codemode than it normally does when that tool is executed straight to the LLM back as text.