Postman's head of product says it will make AI agent plugin opt-in clearer after auto-install complaints
Sarabmeet Kallar told RuntimeWire that Postman bundles its CLI and agent plugins to ease setup, and that it is reviewing the hook approval and session-start behavior a developer flagged.
By Emerson Redding · Published
Primary source: GitHub: postmanlabs/postman-app-support #14370
Why it matters
Coding agents like Codex and Claude Code take standing instructions from plugins and hooks. When another app installs and trusts those on its own, it changes how a developer's agent behaves without the developer choosing it. Postman's head of product now says the company will make that opt-in clearer.
Postman will make the opt-in for its AI coding agent plugins clearer, especially for existing users, Sarabmeet Kallar, the company's head of product, told RuntimeWire on Tuesday, Nov. 3rd.
The statement, sent through Postman's press agency, Offleash PR, answers a developer report that opening the Postman desktop app installed plugins into OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code without asking. The report, filed Oct. 25th as GitHub issue #14370 on Postman's app-support tracker, drew more than 30 comments and a widely read Hacker News discussion.…
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