Sharing API Requests With Your Team Without Slack or Exports

The usual way requests end up shared across a team is informal — a cURL command pasted into Slack, an exported collection file emailed around, a screenshot of a response. All of that works until the request changes and half the team is now testing against a stale copy. This is the workflow when the request itself is the shared thing, not a copy of it.

The request lives in one place

A request built inside a shared workspace isn't something you export and hand off — it's already visible to everyone else in that workspace. When a backend engineer finishes building and testing an endpoint, saving it to a collection makes it immediately available to whoever else needs it next, with no export step in between.

A concrete handoff

1. A backend engineer builds a request against a new endpoint, gets it working, and saves it to the team's collection.
2. A frontend engineer integrating against that endpoint opens the same request directly — same headers, same auth, same base structure — instead of reconstructing it from an API doc or a Slack message.
3. If the frontend engineer needs a slight variant (a different query parameter, say), they can duplicate the request rather than starting over, keeping the original intact for anyone still testing the base case.
4. Later, QA opens the same collection to verify the endpoint before release — testing the actual request the team has been using, not a version they had to rebuild from a ticket description.

Everyone in the workspace sees edits and sent requests live, the same way multiple people editing a shared document see each other's changes — not a stale copy that drifts from what's actually being tested.

Who can change what

Not everyone in a workspace needs the same access. A Viewer role is useful for a stakeholder who needs to see what's being tested without being able to change it; a Editor can build and edit freely. The full role breakdown — Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer — applies here exactly as described there.

What's actually protected

Every change is attributed and timestamped — if a request suddenly stops working, "who changed this last" is answerable from the workspace's own audit history, not a guess based on who was active recently. Secrets attached to a request (tokens, keys) can be marked so they're masked in the UI, so a teammate can use a request that requires your credentials without ever seeing them.

Where this doesn't help

This describes working on requests together in real time. It doesn't replace a separate process for API design review, change approval, or release sign-off — those are workflow decisions a team makes on top of this, not something the workspace itself enforces.