ARD is easy to dismiss as protocol plumbing. That is why it matters. The Agentic Resource Discovery spec is a proposal for how agents find tools, skills, MCP servers, A2A agents, APIs, and workflows without every connection being pre-installed by hand.
Jun 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
ard-spec/spec/ard.md at main · ards-project/ard-spec
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification. Contribute to ards-project/ard-spec development by creating an account on GitHub.
docs/docs/index.md at main · ards-project/docs
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification — documentation site - ards-project/docs
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