MCP Server

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any other Model Context Protocol client to your workspace — chat-shaped AI access with audit-logged mutations and explicit notify semantics.

The openstatus MCP server connects Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any other Model Context Protocol client to your workspace — so an AI assistant can read and update status pages, status reports, and maintenance windows directly from a conversation.

Quickstart

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openstatus": {
      "url": "https://api.openstatus.dev/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "x-openstatus-key": "os_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

Drop the snippet into your client's MCP config (claude_desktop_config.json, Cursor settings, ChatGPT custom connector), restart, and the openstatus tools appear in the picker. The server is stateless Streamable HTTP and scales horizontally.

What you can do

The server exposes 8 tools scoped to your workspace:

• list_status_pages — discover the pages your assistant can act on.
• list_status_reports / create_status_report — read and post incidents.
• append_status_report_update / resolve_status_report — drive an incident through its lifecycle.
• update_status_report — edit metadata after the fact.
• create_maintenance / update_maintenance — schedule and adjust planned downtime.

Every mutation tool requires notify: true | false — the assistant must explicitly choose whether to notify subscribers, so an LLM cannot quietly fan out an alert.

Auth & audit

Authentication is the x-openstatus-key header — the same API key the CLI, API, and Terraform use. We don't implement the MCP OAuth flow: no separate credential to manage, no consent screen, just one key from Settings → API Tokens.

Every mutation lands in the audit log under actor_type = 'mcp', so you can trace any change back to a key, a user, and a transport.

Other surfaces

• Want a terminal interface for AI agents (Claude Code, etc.) instead of chat? See skills on the CLI page.
• Building an in-app integration? Call the API directly.
• Want Slack instead of Claude or ChatGPT? See the Slack agent.

Reference

Full tool schema, error codes, and per-client config in the MCP reference.