intermediateMCP Advanced — Sampling, Elicitation, Resources, Prompts

What is 'elicitation' in MCP, and what user experience problem does it solve?

Elicitation lets an MCP server pause mid-operation and ask the client to prompt the human user for additional input (e.g. missing information needed to complete a booking) rather than failing outright or guessing. This turns a hard stop into an interactive back-and-forth without the server needing its own separate UI.

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