Instatus MCP server for AI agents and assistants

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Instatus MCP or direct API to create incidents, update status pages, manage maintenance, and review subscribers through natural language.

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Instatus is a status page and incident communication platform for service health, incidents, maintenance, monitors, and subscribers. Use it to keep customers informed during outages, planned work, and live service updates.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Instatus action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Add Incident Update

Post a public lifecycle update to an Instatus incident and change affected component states.

Add Maintenance Update

Post a public progress update to an Instatus maintenance, optionally changing its lifecycle, timing, and affected component states.

Create Component

Create a component on an Instatus status page.

Create Incident

Create an incident on an Instatus status page with optional affected component states.

Create Maintenance

Schedule or start a maintenance on an Instatus status page.

Get Component

Get the current health and configuration of one component on an Instatus status page.

Get Incident

Get one Instatus incident with its affected components and update history.

Get Maintenance

Get one Instatus maintenance with its schedule, affected components, automation settings, and update history.

List Components

List components and their current health for one Instatus status page, including child components where present.

List Incidents

List incidents for an Instatus status page, optionally including or excluding lifecycle statuses.

List Maintenances

List scheduled and historical maintenances for an Instatus status page.

List Status Pages

List status pages available to the connected Instatus account so an agent can discover page IDs for component, incident, and maintenance operations.

Update Component

Change a component's health or presentation on an Instatus status page.

Update Incident

Edit an existing Instatus incident's name, timing, lifecycle status, affected components, or component states.

Update Maintenance

Fully replace an Instatus maintenance's public message, schedule, lifecycle state, affected components and states, and automation settings.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Instatus MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
2

Create a session with MCP enabled

typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["instatus"],
  mcp: true,
});
Create a session scoped to Instatus and read its MCP URL and headers
3

Connect your agent to the MCP server

typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "Create a new Instatus incident for API latency affecting the production API component",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a Instatus request
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Instatus API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
2

Create a Composio session

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["instatus"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to Instatus
3

Run Instatus tools with your agent

typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "Create a new Instatus incident for API latency affecting the production API component" }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
Send a request, execute the Instatus tool calls through the session, and print the final answer

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Instatus Integration

  • Supports both Instatus MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable incident and status page actions
  • Rich coverage for managing incidents, components, maintenance, monitors, and subscribers

Managed Auth

  • Secure handling for Instatus API keys without hard-coding secrets in your agent
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Instatus access
  • Per user and per environment credentials so staging and production stay cleanly separated

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned so agents can safely create incidents, update service health, and query status data
  • Clear execution logs show what changed in Instatus, when it changed, and who triggered it
  • Natural language prompts map to practical Instatus actions, so your agent can move fast without brittle glue code

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Instatus
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Instatus resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support incident review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Instatus requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Yes. Composio is SOC 2 Type II compliant and is built to keep your Instatus connection and credentials secure. OAuth tokens and API keys are encrypted, and sensitive customer data is protected at rest and in transit.

Composio also undergoes independent security testing and continuously monitors its systems for security threats. You can review the latest reports and policies in the Composio Trust Center.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

Create the key in your Instatus account settings, then paste it once on Composio's connection page. Composio stores it encrypted and uses it only for the Instatus actions your agent runs. Nobody else in your workspace can read it, and you can revoke it inside Instatus at any time.

When you connect a Instatus account through Composio, every action runs under that account, so anything the agent creates, sends, or changes shows up in Instatus as done by you. Keep an approval step in your prompt for actions with side effects, such as sending or deleting, and have the agent draft first.

Whatever the credentials you connect allow inside Instatus. If Instatus lets you scope a key to specific permissions, create a scoped one so the agent can only do what you intend. You can revoke the key inside Instatus at any time.

Yes. Composio supports multiple connected accounts for the same app, and that works in Claude, ChatGPT, or any other assistant you connect through Composio. Give each Instatus connection a name such as work or personal, and the assistant uses the one you mention in the request. Each account keeps its own credentials and nothing is merged.

The connection stops working the moment Instatus rejects the old key. Create a new key in Instatus and reconnect the account from the Composio dashboard or by asking your agent to reconnect Instatus. Nothing else changes.

Composio's free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month with no credit card, which covers most personal Instatus use. Paid plans add higher limits and team features. Your Instatus plan and its API limits still apply as usual.

Built-in connectors usually give one AI access to a limited set of apps. Many people use Composio because it lets their AI connect to more apps than it normally supports, or connect to multiple accounts for the same app (e.g. connect Claude to multiple Instatus accounts).

With Composio, you connect Instatus once and then use it across different AI assistants without setting it up separately in each one. Connect your apps to Composio once, then connect Composio to whichever AI you use, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, or your own custom assistant.

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