Generate a Postman Collection from Your Route Files

Keeping a Postman or Insomnia collection in sync with your actual routes is a chore that almost nobody does consistently. Claude can generate an importable collection directly from your route definitions.

Read routes/api.php and generate a Postman collection v2.1 JSON 
file. Group endpoints by resource, include example request bodies 
for POST/PUT routes based on the validation rules in the 
corresponding FormRequest classes, and add a Bearer token 
auth variable.

Claude reads your route file, infers HTTP methods, groups by resource, and cross-references your request validation rules to build realistic example payloads — no hand-crafting required.

The output is a valid .json file you can import straight into Postman:

{
  "info": { "name": "My API", "schema": "...postman_collection.json" },
  "item": [
    {
      "name": "Products",
      "item": [
        { "name": "List products", "request": { "method": "GET", "url": "{{base_url}}/api/products" } },
        { "name": "Create product", "request": { "method": "POST", "body": { "mode": "raw", "raw": "{\"name\": \"...\", \"price\": 0}" } } }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

You can also ask Claude to generate an Insomnia export format, or add pre-request scripts for token refresh if your API uses short-lived JWTs.

Your route file is the source of truth — generate your API collection from it, not the other way around.