Hello all,

Thank you all for the vocal and clear feedback. We intended this change to simplify the setup for developers who use agents to build APIs with coding agents as we see many people struggling in wiring these up. Installing skills for coding agents is a new way of working with Postman and we thought that the in-product and website messaging conveys the intent.

Based on the feedback from the community, we understand this wasn’t the case so we will be re-designing the experience with the right level of control.

In the meantime, we are reverting this change.

Thinking about that, it could be neat for a threat actor to have their hands on one's coding agents' config, so whatever it puts out, it leaves predefined vulnerabilities or sends parts of the closed source code back home.

It'd double scarry if this 'update' could reconfig not only outsourced models like Claude, but local ones too.

Thank you all for the vocal and clear feedback: "We don't care but we don't want bad publicity."

as we see many people struggling in wiring these up: "We think developers who handle HTTP requests are stupid."

we thought that the in-product and website messaging conveys the intent: "Sorry not sorry."

In the meantime, we are reverting this change: "We will do it again later because we did it in the past and we still have users who are too stupid to use another tool."

Assholes in the past, assholes today, assholes in the future.

that sounds like malware

Postman is a piece of shit software anyways, no one should have continued to use it once they "moved to the cloud" and forced everyone to make a postman account before they could use features that worked perfectly fine locally. Use Bruno instead.

The age of Ai code means that I don't even understand the app description anymore:

Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

🤯

I couldn't find the app developers' reply btw, probably because so many people let off steam meanwhile. So which comment(s) is/are it?

They can be sued for Computer Sabotage in Germany, right?

Just use Bruno 🤷

I have a blood feud with Postman because, for years, every time an update came out it just got worse. I got to the point where I'd only update when I got a new work computer or had to for some specific feature (very rare)... that was maybe every two years.

Around 2023 (I think) I had to do an update and, after the update, it helpfully locked my dozens of collections and hundreds of LOCALLY saved requests behind a "you must create an account" barrier. I was fucking pissed, still am.

They did provide access to an "export" functionality but it wasn't easy to find and didn't seem to be documented. I found out about it with a web search where everyone was complaining about the tomfuckery and somebody offered that helpful bit of info.

Exported, tried a few other clients, settled on Bruno like a few other comments say. The postman export imported into Bruno just fine. Hoppscotch seemed pretty good too but I don't think it had Environments at the time. At least I remember there being something about environment configs where Bruno was better.

Fuck postman forever. https://www.usebruno.com/

Still do not regret migrating to Voiden.

Not using AI agents would be an easy fix