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Update an escalation policy

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

Update an escalation policy Updates an existing escalation policy and rules. Escalation policies define which user should be alerted at which time. For more information see the API Concepts Document Scoped OAuth requires… [PUT /escalation_policies/{id}]

Name on the gateway: pagerduty_api__update_escalation_policy · may change things.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
id requiredstringThe ID of the resource.
escalation_policy requiredobject

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__update_escalation_policy",
  "arguments": {
    "id": "…",
    "escalation_policy": "…"
  }
}

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 update an escalation policy tool with id set to ….

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