Claude Code supports MCP Tasks and Elicitations: plugins can track long-running tasks and ask users questions mid-process.

Beating AI News Flash: Anthropic announces that Claude Code now supports MCP Tasks and Elicitations, enabling external plugins to manage the execution status, progress, and results of long-running tasks through standard interfaces, and to ask users questions when needed.

For example, letting plugins conduct in-depth research or export large reports. MCP servers can first return a task ID and then continue executing. Claude doesn't have to wait the whole time and can handle other work simultaneously. Once the task is complete, Claude Code retrieves the results and delivers them to Claude. If the task runs on a remote server, it can continue executing even after exiting Claude Code, and tracking can resume after re-entering the original session.

Elicitations, meanwhile, allow plugins to pop up forms mid-execution to request user confirmation of refunds or supplement missing information before continuing work.

MCP Tasks became a protocol extension in July this year. This time, Claude Code has added support for the protocol; it is still in public beta, requires CLI version 2.1.304 or above, and MCP servers also need to be adapted.