Code-graph context vs. file-by-file reading for coding agents: a 955-job measurement
Across 955 jobs on 18 public repositories (13,954 files, 2.7 million lines, 11 languages), a file-by-file agent workflow opened 1 file and read 1,413 lines — 13,321 tokens — for a typical job. The same job answered through Context Zero Engine's code graph used 2,221 tokens in one MCP call: an 83% reduction, 10.1× fewer tokens pooled across the run.