Free Edition

The Free Edition is a local (stdio) MCP server that puts MCP elicitation in the hands of prompt and skill authors. It runs entirely on your machine — no account, no service, no infrastructure; one npx command and you’re running. It exposes three tools — elicit_confirm, elicit_doctor, and elicit_form — and is open source.

Why it exists

To enable sophisticated Agent Skills. A skill author regularly needs a human in the loop — “OK to proceed?”, “which environment?”, “fill in the release details.” MCP has a native answer for exactly this (elicitation), but only an MCP server can trigger it — and nobody wants to roll their own server just to ask a question. Now you don’t have to: connect Elicitly, and your skill calls elicit_confirm or elicit_form to raise a real elicitation dialog, with no bespoke plumbing.

Two further motivations ride along:

• Transparency. There is a noticeable gap between the MCP elicitation specification and its implementations — support varies by host, and is sometimes “advertised but broken.” The elicit_doctor utility makes that gap visible and testable, feeding the public Support Matrix.
• A better ecosystem. The same reports help MCP client authors find and close their elicitation gaps — and better host support ultimately benefits the whole AI community.

Next steps

• Install — run it from npm or from source, and register it in your MCP host.
• Tools reference — elicit_doctor, elicit_form, elicit_confirm with example inputs and outputs.
• Elicitation Support Matrix — what real hosts actually support.
• Pro Edition — when the dialog isn’t enough: hosted approvals that work on any host, review pages on any device, and an audit trail. See pricing.