bootstrap

bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code from Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin. It costs 146 tokens per session (1,654 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for connecting a repository to Postman, a tool for creating and testing API requests. It finds or records the repository's Postman files, workspace, and command-line settings without guessing missing values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or check the Postman command-line tool, sign in when needed, link a workspace, and record the repository's API specification and collection locations.
Why use it?
It gives other Postman tasks a known starting point and avoids using the wrong workspace, file path, credentials, or command. It also covers authentication and safe handling of secrets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the postman plugin — 13 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to install or check the Postman command-line tool, sign in when needed, link a workspace, and record the repository's API specification and collection locations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/postman-devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin/bootstrap
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin --skill bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install postman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,654 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00146 $0.01654
Opus 5.5 $0.00058 $0.00662
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00165

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b6fe5c7eb249, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bootstrap scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Make HTTP calls with `postman request`, never `curl` or another client — it
skills/bootstrap/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bootstrap Postman for This Repo

Overview

One-time and idempotent: every other Postman skill in this plugin reads the values this one records and re-derives none of them. Finding an existing postman/ tree or an OpenAPI file is a signal to inspect, not to assume this repo is already set up.

Rules

  • Make HTTP calls with postman request, never curl or another client — it reuses saved auth and env vars, syncs to the workspace, and runs test assertions.
  • Never invent a subcommand or a flag. Run -h first and believe it.
  • Lint specs with postman spec lint, never postman api … — the API Builder is deprecated in v12+ and the CLI prints no warning.
  • Local commands need no login; only commands reaching the Postman cloud do. Don't force a login the task doesn't need.
  • A missing postman binary means install it. Route to postman-mcp-server only after an install has been attempted and actually failed.
  • Never fabricate a workspace id, spec path, or collections directory. Report the gap and stop.
  • Never echo an API key or session token into output, logs, or summaries.
  • "Present" is not "current": check the version and existing links before setting anything up.
  • Wire up an existing repo only. Never scaffold a new API or a starter spec.
  • Write no host-specific paths — one skills/ directory loads on Claude Code, Cursor and Kimi Code.

Ask the CLI: -h

The CLI is self-describing at different levels. Walk down only as far as the question needs:

postman -h                      # resources: collection, spec, mock, monitor, workspace, api, flows…
postman <resource> -h           # that resource's actions
postman <resource> <action> -h  # real flags, defaults, and worked `Eg.` lines

Read the third level before writing any command that carries a flag — it is the only place defaults are stated, and a wrong default fails silently. Live output is authoritative over any summary, including this file. There is also no single verb for "is the workspace linked and synced": run postman workspace -h and pick from what it prints.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A b6fe5c7eb249

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository Postman-Devrel/postman-claude-code-plugin (41 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 1,654 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-20.

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