How Elicitation in MCP Brings Human-in-the-Loop to AI Tools

How Elicitation in MCP Brings Human-in-the-Loop to AI Tools

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has transformed how AI systems connect to external services. Yet, until recently, those interactions remained rigid and brittle. Tools would either succeed when all parameters were supplied before execution, or they would fail with vague errors. That one-shot model led to frustrating user experiences and limited the sophistication of AI workflows. Elicitation enables an MCP server to pause and request structured …

MCP C# SDK updated to support latest Model Context Protocol spec

Microsoft announced that the MCP C# SDK now supports the latest specification version of the Model Context Protocol, allowing .NET developers to leverage an improved authentication protocol, elicitation support, and structured tool output when building AI applications with Model Context Protocol clients and servers. The update to the open source SDK, accessible on GitHub, was detailed in a July 22 blog post. To use the new features, developers c…