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DimensionPagerDuty MCP ServerPagerDuty's official MCP server for managing incidents and on-call from your IDE or chat clientMartinLoop MCP ServerAn independent control layer that gives AI coding agents budgets, brakes, and receipts
FMRS64 / 100 · C79 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions14 / 2018 / 20
Maintenance11 / 2016 / 20
Documentation17 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • SREs / on-call engineers already using PagerDuty
  • DevOps teams wanting AI-assisted incident triage without leaving their IDE
  • Teams that want to query incident metrics or manage schedules conversationally
  • Engineering teams scaling AI coding agents while controlling spend
  • Platform teams that need auditable, rollback-aware agent execution records
  • Organizations using multiple agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) under one governed flow
Not for
  • Teams that don't use PagerDuty
  • Organizations requiring strict least-privilege, role-scoped tokens (this server uses a user-level API token with that user's full account privileges)
  • Deployments that expose the HTTP endpoint directly on untrusted networks without an authenticating reverse proxy
  • Developers who just want a simple code-completion helper without run governance
  • Teams unwilling to accept local JSONL run records with HMAC signing
  • Environments without a supported adapter (Claude/Codex/Gemini CLIs, direct provider, or verifier-only)
Required permissions
  • Requires a PagerDuty User API Token (`PAGERDUTY_USER_API_KEY`) with that user's full privileges on the PagerDuty account
  • Only read-only tools are exposed by default; `--enable-write-tools` must be explicitly set to create, update, or delete incidents, services, teams, schedules, escalation policies, webhooks, and status page content
  • Optional `PAGERDUTY_API_HOST` to target the standard or EU regional API endpoint
  • Read/write access to the configured repo root (writable scope restrictable via --allow-path/--deny-path)
  • Ability to invoke the chosen agent CLI (Claude/Codex/Gemini, etc.) and its underlying model account
  • Local disk writes for run records, receipts, and share outputs (share/run-receipt., etc.)
  • Execution of user-configured verifier commands (e.g. npm test)
Risks and side effects
  • The streamable-http and sse transports have no built-in authentication — any client able to reach the host/port can invoke tools, including write tools, using the single API key the server was started with; the README explicitly warns to keep the default loopback bind and only expose 0.0.0.0 behind an authenticating reverse proxy/gateway
  • Write tools are powerful: they can delete teams, modify escalation policies and schedules, and create status page incident posts, so mistakes can disrupt real on-call routing or customer-visible status pages
  • Creating a webhook subscription returns a signing secret that must be stored securely
  • Claude Desktop's config file requires the API key to be stored in plaintext, so file permissions matter
  • Verifier commands are executed; poorly chosen verifier commands carry security risk despite preflight policy checks
  • Cost and token figures may be estimates (labeled with provenance) and should not be treated as settled accounting
  • Receipt integrity must be verified before use as trustworthy evidence; missing rollback evidence is flagged as EVIDENCE_BOUNDARY
  • Policy defaults come from martin.config.yaml and can be overridden by CLI flags; misconfiguration can loosen safety boundaries
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, VS CodeClaude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Continue
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