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

Or skip the command line: in Claude Desktop, download elicitly.mcpb from the latest release and open it — a one-click, self-contained desktop extension.

Then ask your agent to call elicit_confirm ("Ship it?"), elicit_form (your own JSON schema), elicit_doctor (does this host actually support elicitation?), or elicit_display (show a LiquidJS template rendered inline as an MCP App).

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

Elicitly™ is a trademark of Preneur LLC — see TRADEMARKS.md.