Google and Industry Partners Announce Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for AI Agents

Google and industry partners have introduced the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification to help AI agents discover and verify tools and APIs. The framework uses catalogs and registries to improve governance and security in autonomous agent workflows.
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Standardizing how AI agents find and interact with tools is a critical step toward building secure, interoperable, and scalable enterprise AI ecosystems.
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The article provides a technical overview of an industry specification without favoring specific commercial interests over the standard itself.
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