Cross Domain · specification

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD)

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is a proposed open standard for the discovery layer the agentic web is missing — the step that happens before invocation, where a client asks “what is available for this task?” and gets back a ranked set of MCP servers, agents, skills, workflows and APIs it could use. Publishers describe their resources once at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json on their own domain; independent discovery services index those catalogs and expose them through a small REST interface. It deliberately does not execute anything, and it does not try to be the one registry.

agenticresourcediscovery.org/The standard

2026First published

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Also known as ARD, ARD Specification, Agentic Resource Discovery Specification.

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