Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD)
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description: Publish an AI Catalog at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json listing the agent capabilities your domain offers — MCP servers, A2A agents — so registries and agents can find and trust them from one fetch.
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date modified: 2026-06-19T12:00:00.000Z
citation: Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification
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  publisher: ARD Project (Linux Foundation)
citation: AI Catalog standard
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  publisher: AI Catalog Working Group, Linux Foundation
citation: RFC 8141 — Uniform Resource Names (URNs)
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  publisher: IETF
citation: Announcing the Agentic Resource Discovery specification
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  publisher: Google

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