Claude Code’s VSCode extension advertises MCP elicitation but auto-declines every prompt
hjmurmur · ghdev · 2026-07-20
Claude Code declares MCP elicitation support in VSCode, but auto-declines every request
A reproducible bug report says the Claude Code VSCode extension advertises the MCP elicitation capability during initialization, yet silently auto-declines every elicitation/create request without showing UI.
Key points:
- The same session can already render permission prompts and AskUserQuestion dialogs.
- ServerSession.checkclientcapability(...) returns true, so servers believe elicitation is supported.
- ctx.elicit(...) returns a normal decline result instead of raising an error, making it indistinguishable from a real user cancellation.
The practical impact is that MCP servers using a two-phase destructive flow (“ask first, proceed on accept”) get stuck. The reporter worked around it by treating decline as “declined or unavailable” and falling back to a confirmation-token flow, which weakens semantics for clients that do support real elicitation.
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