Rootly MCP: incidents and on-call in your AI app

Bring Rootly into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Rootly free and sign in with your Rootly account.
2. 2During an incident, reading is what you need most. Switch off tools that delete, such as removing an action item, and check the full list after you connect for anything else that changes incidents or schedules.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app to list the open action items from your last incident, then open Activity to see the call.

Incident work from chat

• Check who's on call and how schedules are set up.
• Get Rootly's analysis of an incident while you write the postmortem.
• List follow-up action items across your organization and open one for details.

Incident history you can trust

• Switch off action item deletion so follow-ups can't disappear.
• Policies check every call, so a credential pasted into an incident note can be blocked.
• Activity keeps a record of every call made during an incident.

What you get with Rootly and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use RootlyClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Rootly through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Rootly tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Rootly tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Rootly. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Delete Action ItemThis tool allows for the deletion of a specific action item in rootly. it complements the existing rootly list action items functionality by providing the ability to remove individual action items fro
• Get Action Item DetailsThis tool retrieves a single action item by its id from rootly using a get request to https://api.rootly.com/v1/action items/{id}. it provides detailed information about an action item including summa
• List Action ItemsThis tool retrieves a list of all action items for an organization in rootly. action items are tasks or follow-up items that need to be completed during or after an incident, helping to track and mana