Postman Released Fabric Gateway for AI Agents
The control plane provides centralized management for connections between autonomous AI agents and enterprise APIs.
Updated on Sept. 29, 2026 in Artificial Intelligence
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Postman has announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway, a control plane designed to govern how AI agents discover and interact with APIs. The tool provides organizations with centralized oversight of agent access and security.
Why it matters
As enterprises scale the deployment of AI agents, they face increasing challenges in managing secure, reliable connectivity to internal and external APIs. This gateway addresses the need for a unified control layer to manage these machine-to-machine interactions.
The Fabric Gateway serves as a unified control plane, enabling organizations to manage agent discovery and permissions centrally. It governs the entire lifecycle of interactions between AI agents and APIs, replacing ad-hoc connection management.
The players
Postman
A software company focused on API development and management tools used by developers to design, test, and document web services.
The details
Fabric Gateway functions as a middleware layer that sits between autonomous AI agents and the API ecosystem. Organizations connect their agents to the gateway, which then enforces discovery protocols and permission sets for every API call an agent attempts to execute. By centralizing these traffic controls, administrators can restrict or audit how specific AI models interact with sensitive enterprise data or external services.
Timeline
September 29, 2026: Postman announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway.
The Tech Race
This release positions Postman as a key player in the emerging field of AI agent orchestration, moving beyond traditional API management. It follows the industry trend of treating autonomous agents as first-class citizens within the software development stack, similar to how microservices are managed today.
Developers and IT administrators can now integrate Fabric Gateway into their existing API management workflows to govern agent access across their enterprise architecture. The tool is available for immediate use by organizations looking to standardize security policies for rapidly deployed AI agents.
The takeaway
The move toward agent-based enterprise workflows makes API control planes a critical piece of infrastructure for maintaining security and visibility. Watch for future integrations between Postman and major LLM providers as a signal of how this management layer evolves to handle increasingly autonomous agent tasks.
Further reading
For broader trends in machine autonomy, see Artificial Intelligence.
Source note: This article includes information reported by IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity news.
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