APIs drive modern applications, but when the internal workflows to create those APIs break down, they can turn seamless automation into a throw-your-laptop-out-the-window mess. A broken API workflow doesn’t just slow development—it can impact revenue, disrupt customers, and overwhelm support teams. After all, an efficient workflow is what keeps you connected to your team and your APIs.
At Postman, we’re always working on ways to make API workflows smoother, smarter, and—dare we say it—more delightful. That’s why, for the February edition of the Postman Drop, we’re showcasing five features that will simplify your workflow. We promise you’ll feel sparks of joy…and maybe even love.
Let’s dive in.
AI Agent Builder
AI agents are the engines driving the next wave of intelligent automation, but building an AI agent is no easy feat. While AI agents promise to push the boundaries of automation—autonomously making decisions, executing tasks, and delivering real-time results—building one is far more involved than just plugging into an LLM. Unlike large language models, which generate responses based on text patterns, AI agents must interact with tools, reason across multiple steps, and retain memory to be truly effective. The path to building one is filled with friction: developers must source reliable APIs and LLMs, navigate fragmented documentation, write extensive custom code, and orchestrate complex workflows—all before seeing meaningful results.
If you’re a Postman Drop regular, you are hopefully now familiar with AI Agent Builder, which we debuted last month. But if you missed the news, here’s recap to get you—and your workflows—up to speed.
Think of Postman’s AI Agent Builder as your knight in shining armor for all of your agent building needs. This comprehensive suite of solutions empowers developers to design, test, and deploy intelligent agents with ease. Need to compare LLM responses? Done. Want to build and test agentic solutions—without writing code? Easy. Looking to discover APIs and LLMs within Postman or via API? We’ve got you covered. No matter where you are on your agentic AI journey, the AI Agent Builder will make the process easier, simpler, and more joyful.
To learn more about the AI Agent Builder, check out last month’s edition of the Postman Drop, or get hands-on in our dedicated AI Agent Builder workspace. And keep your eyes peeled, because we’ve got some more AI Agent Builder capabilities in the works that will allow you to deploy and monitor agents.
Endpoint testing with inline Postbot
For many developers, testing starts with inspecting the response body. This manual process is crucial for validating an endpoint’s behavior early in development. But, manual processes introduce a set of challenges that can slow down debugging, increase errors, and make workflows inefficient.
Postbot, Postman’s AI assistant for API workflows, makes this workflow much easier. Users can create and run checks on their endpoints by simply selecting part of a JSON response. Postbot will then offer inline suggestions based on the selected data. For example, if a user selects a date from the response, they can ask Postbot to “Check for this date format.” This simplified testing experience allows users to validate basic endpoint behavior without needing to write scripts or code. They can just inspect the response as usual, and directly create test cases right from there.
Learn more about endpoint testing with inline Postbot.
Official workspace updates within Slack and Teams
Keeping up with API changes can be a frustrating, time-consuming challenge—missed updates can break integrations, manual notifications slow teams down, and important changes often get lost in scattered communication channels. Without a centralized, automated way to track updates, developers are left juggling docs, emails, and Slack messages just to stay in sync.
Last year, we launched the workspace updates feed, enabling API producers to keep their consumers informed of important changes directly within the Postman app. More recently, we enhanced our Slack and Teams integrations to provide automated notifications for updated requests, collections, and environments.
Today, we’re introducing an even more streamlined way to stay informed that will make your change management workflow even more delightful. You can now receive the intentionally written summaries from workspace updates in Slack and Teams, ensuring critical API changes are clearly communicated, keeping everyone in the loop, and preventing important changes from slipping through the cracks.
This new capability is available for team and private workspaces, with support for public workspace updates coming soon—making it even easier to stay on top of public APIs. Stay tuned!
Learn more about workspace updates and our integrations with Slack and Teams.
A more sophisticated response pane
We’ve heard from your feedback: you often spend too much time manually configuring response views and sifting through cluttered data just to understand API responses. When working with different formats like JSON, XML, or HTML, the lack of an intuitive, context-aware interface can kill that flow-state buzz.
The Postman API client is at the heart of the Postman platform. To make response inspection more seamless and intuitive, we now display only the most relevant tools for each response type. Whether you’re working with JSON, XML, HTML, or another format, Postman automatically defaults to the appropriate view—such as Preview mode for HTML responses and JSON mode for JSON responses. We’ve also added a one-click visualizer—powered by Postbot—to the response pane. Just select “Visualize” to instantly generate a table, line chart, or bar graph, or use the Postbot chat to customize your visualization format. These enhancements make testing and debugging APIs more efficient, so you can spend less time sorting through tools and more time building something you love.
Learn more about inspecting API responses in Postman.
API prototyping templates
Designing an API from scratch can feel overwhelming, with every decision—from endpoints to data models—carrying high stakes. Without a clear starting point, developers spend too much time debating design choices, manually setting up common patterns, and struggling to gather early feedback. This slows iteration, makes collaboration harder, and increases the risk of late-stage rework, ultimately leading to an API that frustrates consumers.
Postman’s API prototyping templates take the guesswork out of the process, giving you a structured framework to guide this crucial early stage. Whether you’re designing a search API, a file storage API, or a user management API, our templates help you move faster with confidence—so you can focus on refining your API instead of wrestling with where to begin. Just find the right template, click “Use Template,” and follow the instructions to customize the requests and build a mock server. It’s API prototyping made simple—because great APIs (like great relationships) start with a strong foundation.
Explore API prototyping templates, as well as AI templates, demoing templates, documentation templates, and testing templates.
Public API Spotlight: Paylocity
An efficient, streamlined workflow is useless if you can’t find reliable, well-documented APIs to work with in the first place. That’s where the Postman API Network comes in. It’s a global hub where API publishers can share their APIs with over 35 million developers around the world. By publishing APIs and supporting assets to the network, teams can instantly expand their reach, making it easier for consumers to discover and integrate their APIs into their own applications.
This month, we’re shining a spotlight on Paylocity’s APIs, which help businesses build seamless HR and payroll integrations with ease. These APIs, which are available on the Postman API Network, allow developers to integrate critical functions like payroll processing, time tracking, and benefits management directly into their apps, eliminating the hassle of disconnected systems. Their detailed documentation, request examples, and authentication instructions provide a clear path for developers, ensuring that integrations stay on track and workflows run smoothly.
Explore Paylocity’s APIs on the Postman API Network.
That’s a wrap!
And there you have it—another edition of the Postman Drop is in the books. We’ll be back next month with more tips, tricks, and product updates to keep your workflows friction-free. If you’re craving more in the meantime, check out past editions of the Drop—they’re packed with features you might just fall for.
Got questions, feedback, or stories to share? Drop us a comment! Our Product team loves hearing from you.
Keep it 200,
The Postman Team
It’s always great to see new voices sharing insights and experiences.
I might create a specific Postman update channel for those updates for our community members to reference!
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