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Summary
Claude Code began supporting two new MCP features, Tasks and Elicitations, initially only in the CLI version. Tasks let Claude hand lengthy jobs to plugins, such as conducting in-depth investigations, and report results when done; Elicitations allow the agent to request input from users mid-task, s…
Key points
- Developers writing MCP plugins can use this to adjust interaction design for task reporting and mid-task questions.
- Tasks and Elicitations bring long tasks and mid-task human confirmation into a standard protocol, important infrastructure for agent workflows.
- Plugin developers need to support the new task reporting and questioning flows, while end users will be asked for mid-task confirmations during long jobs.
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