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Portfast

Portfast is a switch port behavior in the Spanning Tree Protocol family that enables faster edge port forwarding in Ethernet networks.

  • 13 topics
  • Updated Oct 27, 2026

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Portfast's site tells an agent what Portfast offers. This record adds what a company can't say about itself: who confirms it, who writes about it, and where it sits among its peers. Every line says where it came from.

Market context

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MCP

Add https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public to your agent, then ask about Portfast. Or test it now:

curl -X POST https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"arguments":{"uuid":"12daf986-3973-4dc6-9565-e38b45b656d3"},"name":"di_get_company"}}'

REST

GET https://api.decisioninsights.ai/api/public/v1/companies/12daf986-3973-4dc6-9565-e38b45b656d3

CLI

di get-company --uuid 12daf986-3973-4dc6-9565-e38b45b656d3

How an agent can check Portfast is legitimate

Before it recommends a vendor, an agent should confirm the company is real and is who it says it is. These are the checks this record lets it make, and what each one finds for Portfast today.

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