Name: Elicitly
Author: elicitly

What can you do with Elicitly?

Elicitly — Free Edition

Your AI has questions. Your users have answers. Elicitly connects them — human-in-the-loop for prompts and Agent Skills over MCP elicitation.

This repository is the open-source Free Edition: the elicitly local MCP server and the @elicitly/tools library. The hosted Pro Edition — durable approvals with review pages, an audit trail, and organization dashboards — lives at elicitly.ai.

Quick start

Run the local (stdio) MCP server straight from npm — no clone, no config:

npx -y elicitly

Register it in your MCP host (Claude Code shown; any stdio host works):

claude mcp add elicitly -- npx -y elicitly

Then ask your agent to call elicit_confirm ("Ship it?"), elicit_form (your own JSON schema), or elicit_doctor (does this host actually support elicitation?).

Packages

Package	What it is
`elicitly`	The local stdio MCP server (`npx -y elicitly`)
`@elicitly/tools`	Embeddable toolkit: register the elicitation tools on your own `McpServer`

Why

MCP has a native answer for asking a human — elicitation — but host support is inconsistent, and only an MCP server can trigger it. Nobody wants to roll their own server just to ask a question. Elicitly is that server (or, via @elicitly/tools, the toolkit inside yours), plus the diagnostic (elicit_doctor) that makes real-world host support visible — feeding the public Support Matrix.

Develop

pnpm install
pnpm build        # tsdown builds both packages
pnpm test         # vitest
pnpm test:coverage # vitest + v8 coverage (thresholds enforced; HTML report in coverage/)
pnpm typecheck    # tsc
pnpm check        # biome

License

Apache-2.0

Install

Add Elicitly to your client. Pick the one you use.

claude mcp add elicitly -- npx -y elicitly

codex mcp add elicitly -- npx -y elicitly

amp mcp add elicitly -- npx -y elicitly

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elicitly": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elicitly"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to `claude_desktop_config.json`, then restart Claude Desktop.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elicitly": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elicitly"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`, or `.cursor/mcp.json` for a single project.

code --add-mcp '{"name":"elicitly","command":"npx","args":["-y","elicitly"]}'

Or add the block manually to `.vscode/mcp.json` under `servers`.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elicitly": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elicitly"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to `~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elicitly": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elicitly"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to `cline_mcp_settings.json` via the MCP Servers panel.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elicitly": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elicitly"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to `~/.gemini/settings.json`.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elicitly": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elicitly"
      ],
      "tools": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to `~/.copilot/mcp-config.json`, or run `/mcp add` inside the CLI.

{
  "context_servers": {
    "elicitly": {
      "command": {
        "path": "npx",
        "args": [
          "-y",
          "elicitly"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Add to your Zed `settings.json`.

npx -y elicitly

Run `goose configure`, choose **Add Extension → Command-line Extension**, and paste this command.

Score

39 / 100

Incomplete

Documentation12/25
Maintenance25/25
Trust16/20
Capability0/15
Install experience12/15

Documents what it does and how to connect
Has a resolvable package or endpoint
Exposes at least one tool, prompt or resource
README has substantive content
Includes a code example
Documents its configuration
Mentions credentials or security posture
Last commit 4 days ago
Has a release history
Repository is not archived
Licensed Apache-2.0
Namespace verified in the official MCP registry
Claimed by its owner
Published under an organisation
0 tool(s) documented
Provides prompt templates
Provides resources
12 documented install method(s)
Published to a package registry
Offers a hosted endpoint — no local install

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Version history

Versions	Published
0.5.1Latest	Aug 23, 2026
0.5.0	Aug 20, 2026
0.4.1	Aug 16, 2026