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Internal developer portal for platform engineering, service catalogs, and scorecards.

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Port turns its AI catalog into an automation platform as Workflows hits open beta

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◆Current state
Port is an internal developer portal that has spent 2026 turning its software catalog into an AI-and-automation platform. Recent months added an MCP gateway (external MCP servers into Port AI), BYO/OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoints, an Azure Anthropic provider, Skills and Memory for its AI assistant, and a public plugins repo. June's headline is Workflows reaching Open Beta — a visual, node-based builder for self-service automations.
◆Where it's heading
Two arcs are converging: Port AI as an open, model-agnostic gateway (external MCP, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, Azure-hosted Claude, Skills/Memory) and Workflows as a visual automation layer on top of the catalog. The steady monthly 'Big' feature and the plugins ecosystem signal Port positioning as the automation and agentic-operations hub for platform-engineering teams, not just a catalog of services.
◆Prediction
Workflows likely moves from Open Beta toward GA with more triggers and actions, while Port AI keeps expanding its connector and model surface — the two being stitched into one agentic self-service experience.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Port Product Updates - What we built in June 2026

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    June moves Workflows — Port's visual, node-based automation builder — to Open Beta, alongside Private Pages and external MCP support in AI agents. The automation layer of Port's platform ambitions becoming broadly usable.

  2. 1mo ago

    Port Product Updates - What we built in May 2026

    May opens a public plugins repo and brings Claude Code and Copilot activity into Port, plus richer Workflow triggers and an opt-in sidebar. Ecosystem and integration breadth ahead of June's Workflows push.

  3. 2mo ago

    Port Product Updates - What we built in April 2026

    April adds structured output schemas for AI workflow nodes, support for any OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint, and Custom Widgets for embedding your own UI in Port. Steady expansion of Port AI's model-agnostic and extensibility surface.

  4. 3mo ago

    Port Product Updates - What we built in March

    March introduces MCP Connectors — plugging external MCP servers into Port AI as a unified tool gateway — plus visual data-source mapping to replace hand-written YAML. The foundation of Port AI as an open gateway.

  5. 4mo ago

    Port Product Updates - What we built in February

    February adds an Azure Anthropic provider to run Claude inside your own Azure tenant, a dynamic-RBAC UI, and a permissions simulator. Governance and model-hosting controls maturing around Port AI.

  6. 5mo ago

    Port Product Updates - What we built in January

    January introduces Skills and Memory for Port AI, SCIM provisioning, and client-side encryption. Personalization and enterprise-security groundwork for the assistant.