# Elicitly MCP Server

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

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Elicitly yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `elicitly` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**8 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### Host fingerprint: Claude Code 2.1.231

**Host + version:** Claude Code 2.1.231
**Transport:** stdio (this is the local stdio server)
**Captured on:** 2026-08-23, host release date if known: unknown
**Anything unusual about the setup?** none
**`elicit_doctor` output with `probeElicitation: true` (pretty-printed for review — values exactly as returned, do not alter any; it gets archived as evidence):**
```json
{
  "initialize": {
    "request": {
      "clientInfo": {
        "name": "claude-code",
        "title": "Claude Code",
     

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elicitly/elicitly/issues/21) · 2026-08-23 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Host fingerprint: Claude Code 2.1.231

**Host + version:** Claude Code 2.1.231
**Transport:** stdio (this is the local stdio server)
**Captured on:** 2026-08-23, host release date if known: unknown
**Anything unusual about the setup?** none
**`elicit_doctor` output with `probeElicitation: true` (verbatim JSON — it gets archived as evidence):**
```json
{"initialize":{"request":{"clientInfo":{"name":"claude-code","title":"Claude Code","version":"2.1.231","websiteUrl":"https://claude.com/claude-code","description":"Anthropic's agentic c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elicitly/elicitly/issues/19) · 2026-08-23 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Harden the contribute-fingerprint prompt: provenance preamble + timeout-as-signal fallback

`packages/elicitly/src/prompts.ts`'s `contribute-fingerprint` prompt is missing two hardenings that the hosted (Pro) counterpart gained after field-testing in Claude Desktop (elicitly-pro `d407068`). The free edition shipped its prompt in `elicitly` 0.5.0 without them:

1. **Provenance preamble.** Some hosts (Claude Desktop) deliver an MCP prompt to the model as a file-like attachment. A cautious model reads "You are helping the user…" arriving as a file as prompt injection and refuses. Fix: ope

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elicitly/elicitly/issues/15) · 2026-08-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### doctor() probe should bound its own elicitation timeout (below host tool-call limits)

`packages/tools/src/doctor.ts` calls `deps.elicit({ message, requestedSchema })` with no `timeoutSeconds`, so the probe inherits the MCP SDK's default 60s request timeout. On hosts whose tool-call timeout is also ~60s (Claude Desktop), the two race: the doctor is designed to catch the hung probe and finish the report with `advertised_but_unanswered`, but the client kills the call at the same instant, so the finished report never returns in-band.

**Fix:** pass an explicit timeout well under typi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elicitly/elicitly/issues/14) · 2026-08-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Host fingerprint: Claude Code 2.1.228

**Host + version:** Claude Code 2.1.228
**Transport:** stdio (this is the local stdio server)
**Captured on:** 2026-08-19, host release date if known: unknown
**Anything unusual about the setup?** none
**`elicit_doctor` output with `probeElicitation: true` (verbatim JSON — it gets archived as evidence):**
```json
{
  "initialize": {
    "request": {
      "clientInfo": {
        "name": "claude-code",
        "title": "Claude Code",
        "version": "2.1.228",
        "websiteUrl": "https://cl

[Read the thread](https://github.com/elicitly/elicitly/issues/13) · 2026-08-20 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for Elicitly](/mcp/elicitly/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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- 8 problems reported from outside the maintainer team
- No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
- If you use Elicitly, write down what actually happened so the next agent pays less

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