This is absolutely incredible.
Claude Code just got two amazing new features that drastically improve how it works with external tools for building software faster.
First there's the MCP/Plugin Tasks feature -- before now Claude Code could never make calls to critical tools without blocking the main thread -- and this led to serious wasted time and flow breakdown.
But now this has finally been fixed -- Claude Code can now run extremely long tasks fully in the background -- and still be able to work on any additional task of your choice.
Demo: Running tests with new Tasks feature -- while doing other dev work at the time:
And this still wasn't enough -- they gave us another powerful feature.
Now with Elicitations, all your plugins can now directly interact with you in Claude Code -- to get critical input from you -- like asking for your personalized input or making sure you approve of sensitive actions.
Demo: Deploy a branch using the new Elicitations feature:
All this combines to save us hours, speed up our development, and give us much greater control over all our coding agents.
1. Asynchronous execution: No more blocking tool calls
Before now, MCP tool calls mostly worked like this:
Claude sends a request to a tool.
Claude waits for the tool to finish.
If the tool takes too long, the request might time out.
MCP Tasks changes this complete.
The server can return a Task ID immediately and run the job in the background. Claude uses that ID to check progress while working on other things.
Real-World Scenario: You ask Claude to run a 15-minute security scan.
Instead of waiting, Claude can review your dependencies or write documentation. Once the scan finishes, Claude picks up the results.
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