AgenticResourceDiscovery

Authoritative reference for the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification — the open, federated, domain-anchored standard (by Google, Microsoft, Hugging Face and others) for cataloging, discovering, and searching agentic resources (MCP servers, A2A agents, Skills, APIs, datasets, registries) across the web via ai-catalog.json manifests and a REST search interface. Use this skill whenever the user mentions ARD, "Agentic Resource Discovery", agenticresourcediscovery.org, ai-catalog.json, the urn:air: identifier scheme, Agent Finder, an "agent registry" or "discovery service", publishing/discovering/searching agents or tools, MCP/A2A catalog manifests, trustManifest / attestations / provenance for agents, the .well-known/ai-catalog.json path, federated agent search, or how agents/LLMs dynamically find capabilities at scale instead of hardcoding them — even if they don't name "ARD" explicitly. Also use when asked to author or validate an ai-catalog manifest, build an ARD client, stand up a registry, or conne