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How I stopped building Postman collections by hand (Claude + Postman MCP) (opens in new tab)

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If you test backend services, you know the ritual. A new service shows up, you need to poke its endpoints, so you open Postman and start building a collection request by request. Method, URL, headers, auth, request body, fix the folder structure, name everything so future-you can read it. On a service with a few dozen endpoints, that's an hour or two gone before you send a single request. I haven't done that in months. Now I hand the API definition to Claude, and it builds the whole collectio...

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