Human-in-the-loop for AI agents over MCP elicitation: confirm/form dialogs plus a capability doctor

How do I install Elicitly?

Clone Elicitly from https://github.com/elicitly/elicitly and configure it as an MCP server in your client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code).

Is Elicitly open source?

Yes, Elicitly is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Source code is available at https://github.com/elicitly/elicitly.

What category does Elicitly belong to?

Elicitly is listed under AI & ML MCP servers on MCPFind.

Elicitly — MCP Server for AI & ML

Elicitly — Free Edition

Your AI has questions. Your users have answers. Elicitly connects them — human-in-the-loop for prompts and Agent Skills over MCP elicitation.

This repository is the open-source Free Edition: the elicitly local MCP server and the @elicitly/tools library. The hosted Pro Edition — durable approvals with review pages, an audit trail, and organization dashboards — lives at elicitly.ai.

Quick start

Run the local (stdio) MCP server straight from npm — no clone, no config:

npx -y elicitly

claude mcp add elicitly -- npx -y elicitly

Or skip the command line: in Claude Desktop, download elicitly.mcpb from the latest release and open it — a one-click, self-contained desktop extension.

Then ask your agent to call elicit_confirm ("Ship it?"), elicit_form (your own JSON schema), or elicit_doctor (does this host actually support elicitation?).

Packages

Package	What it is
`elicitly`	The local stdio MCP server (`npx -y elicitly`)
`@elicitly/tools`	Embeddable toolkit: register the elicitation tools on your own `McpServer`

Why

MCP has a native answer for asking a human — elicitation — but host support is inconsistent, and only an MCP server can trigger it. Nobody wants to roll their own server just to ask a question. Elicitly is that server (or, via @elicitly/tools, the toolkit inside yours), plus the diagnostic (elicit_doctor) that makes real-world host support visible — feeding the public Support Matrix.

Develop

pnpm install
pnpm build        # tsdown builds both packages
pnpm test         # vitest
pnpm test:coverage # vitest + v8 coverage (thresholds enforced; HTML report in coverage/)
pnpm typecheck    # tsc
pnpm check        # biome

License

Apache-2.0

Set up in your AI client

AI clientOperating system

Merge this template into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. Keep existing servers. Add any arguments, credentials, and permissions required by the maintainer; this template has not been install-tested.

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-elicitly-elicitly": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elicitly"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect. Confirm the server appears connected in the client’s tool list, then try a read-only example from its documentation.

Claude Desktop setup reference

Compatible MCP Clients

Elicitly works with any MCP-compatible client. Copy the config snippet from the Configuration section above and add it to the file shown for your client, then restart the application.

Claude Desktop~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonRestart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect.

Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.jsonRestart Cursor for changes to take effect.

VS Code.vscode/mcp.jsonReload VS Code window for changes to take effect.

Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonRestart Windsurf for changes to take effect.

Claude Code.mcp.jsonSave at the project root, then start Claude Code in that project and review the MCP server approval prompt. Keep real credentials out of shared files.

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