Rootly agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

4 ready-made playbooks that teach an AI agent how to do real Rootly work: which tools to call, what to check first, and when to stop and ask you.

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All 4 Rootly skills

Each skill is one job. You ask in plain words and the agent loads the skill that matches, then follows its steps.

Start hereAsks before writing24 Rootly tools

Use Rootly well and safely from your AI assistant

Sets up how your AI assistant works with Rootly: confirms which organisation and access it is using, picks the right endpoint and toolsets, keeps searches small, and asks for your explicit yes before any change.

Use it when

You have just connected Rootly and want to know how to start safely
A Rootly lookup returns nothing or far fewer results than expected
You want to know which Rootly actions require your approval

Tools it uses

collect_incidents
check_responder_availability
attach_alert
create_alert
create_alert_event
create_alert_group
create_alert_route
create_alert_routing_rule
create_alert_urgency
create_alerts_source
create_catalog
create_catalog_entity
create_cause
create_custom_field
create_custom_form
create_dashboard
create_environment
create_escalation_level
create_escalation_level_paths
create_escalation_path
create_escalation_policy
create_form_field
create_form_field_option
create_form_set

Example

Before you look at anything in Rootly, check which organisation you are connected to and tell me what access you have.

You are connected to the Acme Operations organisation through a sign-in with access granted at setup. I am starting with incidents from the last 24 hours filtered to severity SEV1 and SEV2, and I will show the first 25 of the matches. Nothing has been changed. Any route or escalation change I suggest will wait for your explicit yes.

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Asks before writing7 Rootly tools

Review Rootly alert noise with AI

Audits your Rootly alert sources, routes and routing rules to find noisy, duplicated or misrouted alerts. It proposes grouping, urgency and routing changes and asks before changing anything.

Use it when

Your on-call team is getting paged too often
The same alert fires twice for one problem
Alerts reach a team that cannot act on them

Tools it uses

create_alerts_source
create_alert_route
create_alert_routing_rule
create_alert_urgency
create_alert_group
create_alert_event
create_alert

Example

Why are we getting so many pages from the payments alerts? Find the noisy sources and suggest what to tune.

The payments-latency source fired 214 times last week, and 171 of those resolved within a minute without any action. It looks like flapping around a threshold. I've proposed a wider grouping window and a lower urgency for the non-critical checks. Nothing has been changed; tell me which proposals to apply.

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Read-only3 Rootly tools

Triage a Rootly incident with AI

Takes a new or open Rootly incident from raw report to a confirmed, severity-assigned state with proposed owners. It reads the record first and asks before changing anything.

Use it when

A new incident was just reported and needs a severity and owner
An open incident has gone quiet and you need to know its current state
Several alerts fired and you want to know if they are one fault

Tools it uses

collect_incidents
attach_alert
check_responder_availability

Example

Triage the checkout incident that was reported 20 minutes ago and tell me what severity it should be.

Checkout incident INC-2214 is open at SEV-unknown. Two alerts are linked, and one similar incident closed on this service yesterday. The record shows 3 responders on call, 1 available now. Proposed: SEV2, because the payment step is failing for a large share of users, with the owner as the on-call payments responder. I have not changed anything; say yes to apply severity and assignment.

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Read-only2 Rootly tools

Prepare an on-call handoff brief with AI

Builds a shift handoff from Rootly schedule and incident data: who is on call now and next, what is still open, and what the next responder must watch. It makes no changes to Rootly.

Use it when

The outgoing responder needs a handoff before their shift ends
A team lead wants to see what happened on a shift across a handoff
A new on-call person needs to know what is still open when they start

Tools it uses

check_responder_availability
collect_incidents

Example

Prepare the handoff for the payments team for the shift that ended at 18:00 UTC.

Handoff for payments, 10:00 to 18:00 UTC. On call now: Priya Shah until 18:00. Next: Marco Ellis from 18:00. Two incidents are still open: a sev2 on checkout latency (owner Priya, next update due 18:30) and a sev3 on refund retries (not yet assigned). Four incidents were resolved this shift, and the payment-gateway timeout alert fired three times.

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RevampKey adds the skills when you connect Rootly, updates them for you and removes them when you disconnect.

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How Rootly skills work

Connect Rootly
The Rootly MCP server gives the agent its tools.
Ask in plain words
“Why are we getting so many pages from the payments alerts? Find the noisy sources and suggest what to tune.” Each SKILL.md says when it applies, so only the one that fits is loaded.
Approve any change
The agent calls the tools in order, checks its work, and shows you any change before it makes it.

How to install Rootly skills

In RevampKey the skills install themselves when you connect Rootly. In other tools each skill is one folder with a SKILL.md file, and you also need the Rootly MCP server connected there.

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Ask in plain language, for example “Why are we getting so many pages from the payments alerts? Find the noisy sources and suggest what to tune.”
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for s in essentials alert-noise-review incident-triage oncall-handoff-brief; do curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/rootly-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/rootly/skills/$s/SKILL.md done
Other tools

Into this project’s .claude/skills folder

Connect the Rootly MCP server in Claude Code.

Run this in your project folder to add all 4 skills:

for s in essentials alert-noise-review incident-triage oncall-handoff-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/rootly-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/rootly/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Why are we getting so many pages from the payments alerts? Find the noisy sources and suggest what to tune.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Rootly MCP server in Cursor.

Run this in your project folder to add all 4 skills:

for s in essentials alert-noise-review incident-triage oncall-handoff-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/rootly-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/rootly/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Why are we getting so many pages from the payments alerts? Find the noisy sources and suggest what to tune.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Rootly MCP server in Codex.

Run this in your project folder to add all 4 skills:

for s in essentials alert-noise-review incident-triage oncall-handoff-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/rootly-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/rootly/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Why are we getting so many pages from the payments alerts? Find the noisy sources and suggest what to tune.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Rootly MCP server in VS Code.

Run this in your project folder to add all 4 skills:

for s in essentials alert-noise-review incident-triage oncall-handoff-brief; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/rootly-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/rootly/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Why are we getting so many pages from the payments alerts? Find the noisy sources and suggest what to tune.”

RevampKey or copy the files?

In RevampKey

One click when you connect Rootly
Updated for you when a skill improves
Removed when you disconnect
The MCP server is set up for you
800+ other connectors, same way

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Copy into your project

One command per project
Run it again to get updates
You connect the Rootly MCP server yourself
Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and VS Code

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Rootly skills FAQ

What is a Rootly agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each Rootly skill describes one job, which Rootly tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

Do the Rootly skills change anything on their own?

2 of the 4 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in Rootly.

Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect Rootly; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

Do I need the Rootly MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the Rootly MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The Rootly MCP setup guide covers every client.

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All 4 Rootly skills

Use Rootly well and safely from your AI assistant

Use it when

Tools it uses

Review Rootly alert noise with AI

Use it when

Tools it uses

Triage a Rootly incident with AI

Use it when

Tools it uses

Prepare an on-call handoff brief with AI

Use it when

Tools it uses

Get all 4 without copying a file

How Rootly skills work

How to install Rootly skills

RevampKey or copy the files?

In RevampKey

Copy into your project

Rootly skills FAQ

Put Rootly’s best workflows in your agent

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