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Update an Incident Type

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

Update an Incident Type Incident Types are a feature which will allow customers to categorize incidents, such as a security incident, a major incident, or a fraud incident. For more information see the API Concepts… [PUT /incidents/types/{type_id_or_name}]

Name on the gateway: pagerduty_api__update_incident_type · may change things.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
type_id_or_name requiredstringThe ID or name of the Incident Type.
incident_type requiredobjectDetails of the incident type to be created.

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_incident_type",
  "arguments": {
    "type_id_or_name": "…",
    "incident_type": "…"
  }
}

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 incident type tool with type_id_or_name set to ….

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