postman-claude-code-plugin CLAUDE.md

A configuration-only Postman plugin for Claude Code that connects to the Postman MCP server, a service for working with APIs. It provides commands and skills for managing API specifications, requests, collections, and Postman Flows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking API readiness, sending requests, generating specifications, running collections, and listing, triggering, deploying, or inspecting Postman Flows.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a defined set of API-development actions without requiring compiled code or a separate build step. The available commands cover the API lifecycle in one setup.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/postman-devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin
Per session 1,784 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,784 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.01784 $0.01784
Opus 5 $0.00892 $0.00892
Sonnet 5 $0.00357 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00178 $0.00178

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7fcbd8ca5f64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

postman-claude-code-plugin CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What This Is

The Postman Plugin for Claude Code — a pure-markdown, configuration-driven plugin that provides full API lifecycle management via the Postman MCP Server. No compiled code, no runtime dependencies, no build step.

Repository Structure

.claude-plugin/plugin.json   # Plugin manifest (name, version, metadata)
.mcp.json                    # MCP server auto-config (Postman MCP at mcp.postman.com)
commands/*.md                # 15 slash commands (/postman:<name>)
skills/*/SKILL.md            # 11 skills (knowledge, agent-ready APIs, CLI, send-request, generate-spec, run-collection, context, and Flows: list-flows, trigger-flow, deploy-flow, get-flow-run)
skills/*/references/*.md     # On-demand reference files loaded by skills only when needed
agents/readiness-analyzer.md # Sub-agent for API readiness analysis
examples/                    # Sample output (readiness report)

How the Plugin Works

  • Claude Code discovers components via .claude-plugin/plugin.json manifest
  • .mcp.json auto-configures the Postman MCP server, providing mcp__postman__* tools. The server mode is switchable via POSTMAN_MCP_MODE (mcp full/default, minimal, or code — the latter two expose fewer tools; minimal lacks the *Context code-gen tools)
  • MCP commands use the cloud Postman MCP Server — authenticate via OAuth in /postman:setup or a POSTMAN_API_KEY environment variable
  • Routing is native: there is no routing skill. Claude matches user intent to commands/skills from their front-matter description fields, so descriptions must state when to use the component
  • CLI commands use the locally installed Postman CLI (npm install -g postman-cli) — requires postman login
  • Plugin is loaded with claude --plugin-dir /path/to/postman-claude-code-plugin

Component Conventions

Commands (commands/*.md): YAML front matter with description and allowed-tools. Each defines a structured workflow invoked as /postman:<name>.

  • MCP commands: setup, sync, search, test, mock, docs, security, learn (learn requires Full mode — searchLearningCenter is absent in minimal/code)
  • CLI commands: request, generate-spec, run-collection, list-flows, trigger-flow, deploy-flow, get-flow-run

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 84 lines · 1,784 tokens per session scan A 7fcbd8ca5f64

Subscribe to this mod's changes

postman-claude-code-plugin CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin (38 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,784 tokens to every session, about $0.0089 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.