I’m looking for MCP that would let the AI ask me for clarification/help in the middle of its thinking/answering proccess.
For example AI to have the tool (MCP) to follow this meta prompt:
Do not finish responding until explicitly told to do so, instead always use MCP input_user_prompt and wait for response in all cases, either you feel stuck, you have question or you finished work on a prompt - always communicate with the user using this MCP.
Just curious — why do you prefer using MCP to handle clarification or follow-up questions instead of simply interacting through Cursor’s built-in chat window? Is there a particular reason or benefit you’re aiming for with that approach?
It can save time and tokens, e.g. if the LLM in the very beginning spots an issue with my prompt - it can ask, get an answer and continue - it may even interview me with several questions as a conversation. That way I will use just 1 request (with many tool calls), spend less time waiting, less tokens written by AI and read by me.
Also sometimes the LLM does a good implementation for steps e.g. 1.-3., but gets stuck in a loop (fix-error-fix-error…) on the 4.-th step. Asking me a question may get the LLM out of the loop, preserve its good code (steps 1.-3.) and even do step 5. - all in single request. (E.g. I may say - revert step 4. - do not do it, just try step 5. and you are done for now.)
Very interesting approach, this would partially also work with multi-agent / manager agent flow where parts are sent to one AI that analyzes code or reviews suggestions while other is still processing the main task.
I built something like that. It’s a VS Code extension bundled with the MCP server, so everything runs locally. The AI can open a modal and give you buttons to choose from, or you can simply write text to give the AI. I really like it, when it works XD
Unfortunately it’s a bit broken, and it doesn’t always connect successfully.
If I find the time hopefully I’ll fix it and publish it
Hey, I finally published my extension! It should appear as Interactive MCP in the extensions marketplace.
It can only work in one IDE, meaning that if you have multiple IDEs opened at the same time, it will only work in one.
You just need to install the extension, and then the extension itself will show a notification with a button to copy the text that you need to add to the MCP json file
