Conductor now asks questions

By Abhay Thacker, Jackson de Campos

We’ve loved using Claude Code’s new ability to ask multiple-choice questions. We were so excited to bring it to Conductor that, instead of waiting for Anthropic to support it in the SDK, we built our own version.

For the UI, we tried to the replicate the experience you know from the Claude Code CLI. The one change we made was getting rid of question headers—they felt a bit noisy. (That’s the blue text in the screenshot above.)

In the past, implementing this would’ve been tricky: we would’ve had to launch a separate MCP server process to provide the ask-question tool. Thankfully, Anthropic recently added the option to create lightweight, in-process MCP servers via createSdkMcpServer. This let us define the ask-question tool directly in the app, so we could easily integrate it into the Conductor UI.

We’ve got a bunch of exciting ideas for more tools we can build using createSdkMcpServer. Stay tuned!