New blog post: Building Interactive MCP Tools with Elicitations
Turns out you can make AI tools that ask follow-up questions instead of just failing when they're missing info. Built a fun ice cream topping recommender to demonstrate the pattern.
Includes real code examples and screenshots of it working. Pretty neat stuff!
https://nickperkins.au/code/mcp-elicitations-interactive-tools/
Nick Perkins · Building Interactive MCP Tools with Elicitations: A Practical GuideThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is revolutionising how we build AI tools, but one of its most powerful news features as just recently been added to the protocol will be a game changer: elicitations. These enable your MCP tools to have interactive conversations with users, gathering input dynamically rather than requiring all parameters upfront. Let me show you how to build engaging, interactive MCP tools using a practical ice cream topping recommender as our example.
A developer managed to reverse pixelation in video using FFmpeg, GIMP and edge detection - no AI involved.
Code & demo: 
