Architecture Development Notes

Oct 25, 2026 · Backend Development

Claude Code MCP Tasks: Four Gates Control Creation, Persistence & Elicitation

This article details the four conditional gates—client capability extension, feature flags, session type, and call origin—that determine whether an MCP tool call becomes a persistent task in Claude Code, explaining why tasks work in terminal CLI but silently degrade in CI, VS Code, or subagents, and provides decision tables for deployment scenarios.