{
  "id": 3066739,
  "title": "Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/agentic-resource-discovery-ard-an-open-specification-for-agent",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-24T16:22:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AWS Machine Learning",
    "slug": "aws-machine-learning",
    "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/agentic-resource-discovery-ard-an-open-specification-for-agent-discovery/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "AWS Agent Registry and Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification address the challenge of finding the right resources as organizations scale their use of AI agents and tools. Before ARD, teams had to manually locate, vet, and connect to resources in siloed registries, and configuring an agent for one AI client didn't make it available to others. AWS Agent Registry is a centralized, searchable catalog that solves this problem through a workflow of creating registries, publishing records, and discovering approved resources. However, enterprises often have agents and tools deployed across multiple clouds, on-premises infrastructure, SaaS platforms, and enterprise applications, each with their own registries and metadata schemas. This makes it difficult to bring everything together without bespoke connectors for every pair of registries. ARD is an open standard that provides a shared protocol for federating regisries across environments, enabling organizations to publish catalogs in a consistent format, discover resources globally, and control access locally. It builds on the model of AWS Agent Registry, allowing organizations to expose resources across clouds, on-premises, and SaaS while maintaining control over what's published, who can see it, and when to revoke access. ARD allows public discovery by organizations publishing catalogs on their own domains, opening paths for cross-organizational discovery for Agent Registry customers.",
  "summary": "AWS Agent Registry gives your organization a centralized, searchable catalog for agents, tools, and skills. It works with the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) standard to enable cross-environment discovery and governance at scale.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}