--- title: MCP Elicitations in Spring AI: Request Missing... description: MCP elicitations provide a standardized way for MCP servers to request missing information from users through the client during tool interactions. The tutorial... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mcp-elicitations-in-spring-ai-request-missing-information-from-users-wu4tju2hd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MCP Elicitations in Spring AI: Request Missing Information from Users | daily.dev og:description: MCP elicitations provide a standardized way for MCP servers to request missing information from users through the client during tool interactions. The tutorial... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mcp-elicitations-in-spring-ai-request-missing-information-from-users-wu4tju2hd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WU4Tju2hD.png og:image:alt: MCP Elicitations in Spring AI: Request Missing Information from Users og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MCP Elicitations in Spring AI: Request Missing Information from Users **[Dan Vega](https://daily.dev/sources/dan-vega)** · 25 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MCP elicitations provide a standardized way for MCP servers to request missing information from users through the client during tool interactions. The tutorial walks through building a coffee shop ordering demo using Spring AI, covering both the server side (defining an MCP tool that checks for missing parameters and triggers elicitation) and the client side (using the @McpElicitation annotation to handle incoming requests and prompt the user via scanner). The MCP inspector is used to test the server independently before wiring up the full Spring AI client. A known issue is noted where the LLM may skip calling MCP tools with empty arguments, worked around via a system prompt instructing the model to always invoke the tool with empty strings for unspecified parameters. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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