Claude Ships MCP Tasks and Elicitations in Claude Code — Durable Agent Workflows, Narrow Launch

Anthropic shipped support for MCP Tasks and Elicitations in the Claude Code CLI on October 23, 2026 — the client-side move that turns Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools from single request/response calls into durable, interruptible work. David Soria Parra, the MCP co-creator at Anthropic, previewed the feature in his keynote at AGNTCon & MCPCon North America on October 22; the shipping record is the official developer thread the following day. The distinction that matters: this is a client-feature act on top of the spec layer, not a change to the protocol specification itself. Two mechanics, one pattern MCP Tasks let a server hand Claude a long-running job — deep research, a build, a report — and report back when it is done.

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