At its annual growth convention POST/CON, Postman introduced a number of new updates throughout its platforms to make it simpler to design, take a look at, deploy, and monitor AI brokers and APIs.
One of many predominant bulletins is the introduction of Agent Mode, an AI agent that may work together with all of Postman’s core capabilities.
Particularly, it could actually create, arrange, and replace collections; create take a look at circumstances; generate documentation; construct multi-step brokers to automate repeatable API duties; and setup monitoring and observability.
Abhinav Asthana, CEO and co-founder of Postman, informed SD Instances that it’s form of like having an professional Postman consumer by your aspect.
All the pieces that the agent creates goes into Postman’s collaborative workspace, the place it may be utilized by any teammate.
With expanded assist for the Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP), Postman customers may even now be capable of flip APIs into callable agent instruments, generate MCP servers from collections, and take a look at agent habits.
“We’ve 100,000+ APIs on the Postman community. All of these can be found basically as MCP servers,” stated Rodric Rabbah, head of product at Postman. “In case your favourite API suppliers haven’t caught up but and constructed an MCP server, you don’t have to attend. You’ll be able to go to Postman, click on a number of buttons.”
Moreover, the corporate has launched a community for MCP servers the place publishers can host instruments for brokers and have them be simply discoverable by builders. “We mainly took all of the distant MCP servers obtainable at the moment, verified them, and put them on the general public community as a result of everyone’s gonna want a verified place quickly. Folks began with unverified MCP servers, and there’s a threat there that if you happen to simply begin having your brokers be linked to unverified MCP servers, it’s identical to distant injection,” Asthana stated.
Past these updates associated to agentic AI, the corporate additionally introduced a lot of new capabilities throughout the Postman platform.
One of many new capabilities is Postman Insights, which affords real-time observability for APIs and allows builders to maintain observe of utilization throughout endpoints and variations, detect failure patterns, and resolve points.
Based on Asthana, this was constructed with a developer lens in thoughts. “We discovered that builders spend loads of time juggling between instruments, copy+pasting issues … You get system degree observability for APIs, however you additionally get a developer workflow that’s linked to all the pieces you already do in Postman,” he stated.
One other new characteristic is Repro Mode, which permits builders to breed API failures utilizing real-world headers, payloads, and authentication tokens.
Moreover, new notebooks have been created that include documentation, tutorials, and reside API calls. Postman believes these will assist enhance developer onboarding processes. “One factor that we noticed is that when builders are within the early phases of exploring an API, they want way more steerage, and notebooks are a method to assist with that,” Asthana stated.
Based on Asthana, usually, product groups wish to spotlight a particular use case, and these notebooks enable them to do this. Anybody can publish a pocket book, and builders can entry printed notebooks by Postman’s public community. “They’ll create these notebooks, share them, and simply use them to drive extra adoption.”
And at last, Postman has expanded its integrations with GitHub, Jira, Slack and Microsoft Groups.
“Companions are wanting to combine with Postman and clients wish to have that flexibility, so the ecosystem once more reinforces our view that Postman is a central place for all issues API,” stated Asthana. “You’re linked to code, you’re linked to messaging, you’re linked to infrastructure. We’ve all these integrations obtainable so that you can simply work a lot sooner.”
Disclosure: The reporter’s journey to POST/CON, together with flights, resort, and meals, was lined by Postman. The reporter additionally obtained a bag of convention merchandise.
