Postman announced
Agent
Mode, a breakthrough AI-native assistant that
delivers real productivity gains across the entire API lifecycle. Available
directly within the Postman platform, Agent Mode understands developer intent
and executes real tasks - designing, testing, documenting, and monitoring APIs
- based on simple natural language input. It compresses weeks of manual effort
into hours, enabling teams to ship faster with fewer handoffs and less
friction.
Organizations
are turning to AI for software development at an increasingly rapid pace.
According to IDC,
this is driven by AI's ability to decrease the need for manual testing,
resulting in improvements in test coverage, software usability, and code
quality. Further, a McKinsey
study showed that software developers can complete coding tasks up to twice as
fast with generative AI, and these gains
in developer productivity can lead to significant improvements in business
outcomes, including faster time-to-market, higher profit margins, and increased
customer satisfaction. As AI continues to reshape the software development
landscape, Agent Mode positions Postman at the forefront of this industry
evolution: from code-first tools to intent-first platforms.
Where
most tools offer copilots that assist with code suggestions, Postman offers a
fully capable execution agent-connected to real APIs, aware of state, and
embedded in a platform used by over 40 million developers worldwide. It
actively manages the heavy lifting of API development, transforming the
fragmented, manual nature of modern software work into fast, AI-powered flows.
Agent
Mode is an AI-powered assistant that turns requests into action-executing
complex flows across Postman's collections, tests, environments, and
documentation. Looking ahead, developers will also be able to build and reuse
their own multi-step agents to automate common API tasks. These reusable agents
will live in teams' workspace and scale productivity across functions and
processes-from daily engineering tasks to broader business operations.
"Agent
Mode signifies a major shift in how developers interact with tools, APIs, and
the systems they build," said Abhijit Kane, Co-Founder of Postman. "With Agent
Mode, Postman becomes the first platform to combine enterprise-grade API
tooling with an intelligent agent capable of understanding business intent and
delivering production-grade workflows on demand. It effectively removes
the need for time-consuming prototyping and empowers teams to move from idea to
working product in days - not quarters."
Agent
Mode acts as a natural-language gateway to Postman's core capabilities:
- Collections and
Environments: The agent creates, organizes, and updates
collections with proper variable handling and reusable configurations.
- Automated Testing: Users can ask the
agent to validate response schemas, create test cases, or simulate edge
cases.
- Documentation: Once a flow is
working, the agent can generate detailed API documentation that's
immediately shareable across teams.
- Reusable Agents: Developers can build
multi-step agents that automate repeatable API tasks-from engineering
flows to business processes-all reusable and shareable within your
workspace.
- Monitoring and
Observability: Developers can set up monitors or define health
checks, all through conversation.
- Team Collaboration: Everything created
by the agent lives in Postman's collaborative workspace, instantly usable
by all teammates, including product managers, quality assurance, support,
and even non-technical members to reduce reliance on developers and expand
the pool of "builders" inside a company.