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Postman shipped AI-native, Git-based API workflows and an enterprise API Catalog, signaling a broader shift of Git principles into API and data tooling.
Postman’s latest update brings Agent Mode into the core platform with visibility across specifications, tests, environments, and production behavior, enabling Git-aware automation for debugging, test generation, and syncing collections directly from repositories and local files InfoWorld. Native Git workflows now manage specs, tests, mocks, and environments, while the new API Catalog provides a central system of record with real-time ownership and performance views, plus integrated distribution for docs, workflows, sandboxes, and SDKs InfoWorld.
In parallel, engineers building dataset version control keep rediscovering Git’s content-addressed storage and object model, as shown in this hands-on writeup of a minimal data VCS that hashes files and stores them by content instead of name DEV Community. This pattern—Git as source of truth for artifacts beyond code—helps explain the push toward Git-native API workflows that cut duplication and improve governance and reproducibility.