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Start an Incident Workflow Instance
An MCP tool from the PagerDuty API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.
Start an Incident Workflow Instance Start an Instance of an Incident Workflow. Sometimes referred to as "triggering a workflow on an incident." An Incident Workflow is a sequence of configurable Steps and associated Triggers that can… [POST /incident_workflows/{id}/instances]
Name on the gateway: pagerduty_api__create_incident_workflow_instance · may change things.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id required | string | The ID of the resource. |
incident_workflow_instance required | object |
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:
{
"name": "pagerduty_api__create_incident_workflow_instance",
"arguments": {
"id": "…",
"incident_workflow_instance": "…"
}
}Or connect the PagerDuty API server directly, which lists 459 tools including this one:
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 start an incident workflow instance tool with id set to ….