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Understanding MCP elicitation

Understanding MCP elicitation

- So, what is elicitation? I have to admit, being a bit of a language-obsessed person, that when I first saw and heard the word elicitation associated with MCP, it triggered some reactions in me because elicitation and eliciting something is a odd word to use for this, and it also sounds very much like elicit, which is not the same thing. So... But I don't make these decisions, someone else does. Elicitation is when an MCP server sends questions back to the user. It elicits a response from the human user of the MCP server to get some something sorted out or to get more information, et cetera. It is a way of creating a back-and-forth between the user, the language model that is actually talking to the MCP server, and the MCP server because there are many circumstances where the language model may not be passing enough information into the MCP server for the MCP server to do its job. Or there may be cases where the MCP server is walking through a process, and as it's walking through…

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