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# Postman plugin skills

> The Postman plugin installs skills that teach your coding agent how to build, test, mock, monitor, document, and manage APIs with Postman.

The plugin installs skills that teach your agent how to complete API tasks with Postman. Each skill loads when the task calls for it, so your agent uses only the ones it needs. To add these skills to your agent, see [Install the Postman plugin](/docs/postman-plugin/install/overview/).

| Skill                  | What it does                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `ai-readiness`         | Scores a collection or OpenAPI specification for how well an AI agent can discover, understand, call, and recover from errors with it.                                                                                                              |
| `api-discovery`        | Finds and uses APIs from the web or Postman. Integrates public third-party APIs with Postman Orbit, locates Postman elements with search, and investigates dependencies, ownership, runtime behavior, and change impact with Postman Context Graph. |
| `api-documentation`    | Generates filesystem-first API documentation from a collection or specification that you can share with your team.                                                                                                                                  |
| `api-engineer`         | Coordinates the other skills to design, implement, mock, test, monitor, document, and deploy an API with fewer tokens.                                                                                                                              |
| `api-mocking`          | Creates a mock from a collection or specification, running locally or deployed at a durable URL, with scenario and status-code overrides for testing failure paths.                                                                                 |
| `api-monitoring`       | Creates, schedules, and manages monitors, triggers ad-hoc runs, inspects run history, and hosts self-hosted runners for APIs on a private network.                                                                                                  |
| `api-simulation`       | Runs your real service locally against mocks of every API it depends on, found in your code and Context Graph and served together on one port.                                                                                                      |
| `api-testing`          | Runs tests against an API from the command line. Tests a single request, a full collection of assertions, or your app's real traffic matched against a collection contract.                                                                         |
| `bootstrap`            | Runs before other skills to resolve the Postman CLI, authenticate when the task needs it, and manage the repository's workspace binding.                                                                                                            |
| `ci-integration`       | Adds Postman checks to CI pipelines as independent pass/fail gates, such as running a collection on every PR or linting against governance rules.                                                                                                   |
| `collection-schema-v3` | The reference the agent reads before writing or editing files in the [Native Git v3 collection format](/docs/use/use-collections/collections-schemas/).                                                                                             |
| `datasets`             | Queries CSV and JSON files, spreadsheets, and live databases as one SQL surface, and drives a collection run one iteration per row with Postman Datasets.                                                                                           |
| `flows`                | Runs, deploys, and debugs Postman Flows from the command line, and traces a failed run to the block that broke.                                                                                                                                     |
| `performance-testing`  | Load-tests a collection with concurrent virtual users, a chosen load profile, and pass/fail thresholds, locally or on Postman Cloud runners.                                                                                                        |
| `postman-mcp-server`   | Loads when the agent works with Postman MCP tools, guiding tool selection and workarounds.                                                                                                                                                          |
| `variables`            | Adds variables to collections and stores secrets in the team's Postman Shared Vault so values never land in agent context or committed files.                                                                                                       |
| `webhook-testing`      | Gives a webhook sender a stable public URL that records every request and forwards it to a local handler, so you can inspect, replay, and assert on deliveries.                                                                                     |