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Create a status update on an incident

An MCP tool from the PagerDuty API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Create a status update on an incident Create a new status update for the specified incident. Optionally pass subject and html_message properties in the request body to override the email notification that gets sent. An incident… [POST /incidents/{id}/status_updates]

Name on the gateway: pagerduty_api__create_incident_status_update · may change things.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
id requiredstringThe ID of the resource.
message requiredstringThe message to be posted as a status update.
subjectstringThe subject to be sent for the custom html email status update. Required if…
html_messagestringThe html content to be sent for the custom html email status update. Required…

How to call it

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "pagerduty_api__create_incident_status_update",
  "arguments": {
    "id": "…",
    "message": "…"
  }
}

Or connect the PagerDuty API server directly, which lists 459 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-pagerduty-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/pagerduty-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Try asking

Use the create a status update on an incident tool with id set to ….

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