Claude Code adds MCP Tasks and elicitation dialogs in public beta

Claude Code's MCP docs describe MCP Tasks and elicitation as a public beta in the CLI from version 2.1.304. An MCP task is a long job, such as a report export or a build, that an MCP server runs itself; Claude's tool call returns once the server accepts the job, so Claude can keep working, and the footer shows a count such as "1 MCP task" while Claude Code polls the server. When the job finishes, a transcript line notes completion and the result goes to Claude, who you can ask for it; a task on a remote server keeps running after you exit, and you resume the same session to follow it again. A running task can also open an elicitation dialog to ask you for input; declining or pressing Esc is sent back to the server, which then decides whether the task continues.