Build, Deploy & Monitor AI Agents with Astropods

Astropods, part of Postman’s AI stack, is presented as an agent operating system for building, deploying, governing, and monitoring production AI agents through a unified lifecycle. Developers define agents in an astropods.yml specification, create and run projects locally using the ast CLI and Docker, optionally use managed models through the AI Gateway, and can leverage coding assistants such as Claude Code to build or migrate applications. Agents are packaged as versioned blueprints after specification validation, then deployed through a web interface or CLI, with documentation in AGENT.md serving as the user-facing Agent Card. Astropods also supports Slack deployment through an adapter requiring a configured Slack app, tokens, scopes, and access policies. After deployment, teams can use traces to inspect interactions and tool calls, evaluations to identify issues such as unnecessary calls or data exposure, and monitoring to assess usage, costs, latency, network activity, and adoption. The guide emphasizes production readiness through validated specifications, secure credential handling, accurate integration documentation, tested workflows, appropriate access controls, and healthy operational metrics.

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