AGNTCY

Agent Directory (DIR)

Distributed announce and discovery of multi-agent systems. gRPC-first, with services for storage (content-addressed by CID), routing over a DHT, structured search, signing and verification, domain name verification, peer sync, streaming events and runtime discovery. Canonical schemas are published on buf.build.

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Documentation

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APIReference
https://dir.agntcy.org/latest/dir/dir-api-reference/
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Documentation
https://dir.agntcy.org/
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GettingStarted
https://dir.agntcy.org/latest/dir/dir-quickstart/

Other Resources

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Protobuf
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agntcy/refs/heads/main/grpc/_index.yml
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SourceCode
https://github.com/agntcy/dir
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BufRegistry
https://buf.build/agntcy/dir
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LLMsTxt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agntcy/refs/heads/main/llms/agntcy-dir-llms.txt
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MCPServer
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agntcy/refs/heads/main/mcp/agntcy-mcp.yml
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ToolCrosswalk
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agntcy/refs/heads/main/mcp/agntcy-tool-crosswalk.yml
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CLI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agntcy/refs/heads/main/cli/agntcy-cli.yml
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APIsJSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agntcy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: Agent Directory (DIR)
description: Distributed announce and discovery of multi-agent systems. gRPC-first, with services for
  storage (content-addressed by CID), routing over a DHT, structured search, signing and verification,
  domain name verification, peer sync, streaming events and runtime discovery. Canonical schemas are published
  on buf.build.
humanURL: https://dir.agntcy.org/
image: https://agntcy.org/logo/preview-thumbnail-new.png
tags:
- Agent Discovery
- gRPC
- Protocol Buffers
- AI Agents
properties:
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/_index.yml
- type: APIReference
  url: https://dir.agntcy.org/latest/dir/dir-api-reference/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dir.agntcy.org/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://dir.agntcy.org/latest/dir/dir-quickstart/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/agntcy/dir
- type: BufRegistry
  url: https://buf.build/agntcy/dir
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/agntcy-dir-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/agntcy-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/agntcy-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/agntcy-cli.yml
x-no-base-url: Self-hosted gRPC. dirctl defaults to 0.0.0.0:8888 for a local node; remote access goes
  through an operator-run oidc-gateway. AGNTCY publishes no public Directory endpoint.