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MCP elicitation in 2026: the server-initiated request is gone, and page one has not noticed
Elicitation has been in MCP since June 2025, but the current 2026-07-28 revision changed how it is delivered and calls the old pattern a breaking change. A field log on the three-revision diff, why elicitationId became requestState, and why the statefulness advice inverted.
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