Agents are part of a massive, interconnected ecosystem. But how do they find and trust each other across different platforms?
Today, we’re proud to announce the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open specification alongside industry partners (including Cisco, Databricks, g Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake). ARD gives any agent a secure, decentralized way to discover and verify capabilities (like tools, skills, MCP servers, and other agents) anywhere on the web.
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👁 This architectural diagram titled "Agentic Resource Discovery" illustrates two parallel paths for an AI agent to find resources: a direct "Catalog" layer where companies self-host discovery files and a centralized "Registry" discovery service. The AI agent searches these sources, then verifies and connects to resources via A2A, MCP, or API protocols. A five-step process flow at the bottom summarizes the workflow: 1) Publish, 2) Crawl, 3) Search, 4) Verify, and 5) Connect.
