Agent skill · software engineering · mvanhorn
pp-postman-explore
The CLI for the public API directory at postman.com/explore — search, rank, and watch community-contributed Postman Collections, agent-native and offline. Trigger phrases: `find a postman collection for`, `what postman collection should i fork for`, `is there a postman collection for`, `browse postman api network`, `compare postman publishers`, `what changed on the postman network`, `use postman-explore`, `run postman-explore`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds unique commands for discovering and comparing Postman Collections that the AI wouldn't generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires postman-explore-pp-cli installed locally. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Postman Explore — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the postman-explore-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: postman-explore-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer): If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. When to Use This CLI Pick this CLI when you need to programmatically discover, compare, or watch community-contributed Postman Collections / workspaces / APIs / flows. Ideal for AI agents asked to find a canonical Postman Collection for a vendor, for API curators comparing publishers in a category, and for monitoring scripts that watch network changes. Skip this CLI for managing your own private Postman workspace — that's the authenticated Postman product API, which is a different surface entirely. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. Discovery that compounds locally canonical — One command finds the best community Postman Collection for a vendor, ranked by publisher verification, fork count, and recency. When the user asks an agent for a vendor's Postman Collection, this returns the best canonical choice in one call instead of forcing the agent to dedupe a search result list. top — Rank entities by any metric (weekForks, monthViewCount, etc.) with category and entity-type narrowing. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/postman-explore