Announcing the Agentic Resource Discovery Specification

Originally published on Google Developers Blog - June 17, 2026, by Junjie Bu and Srinivas Krishnan.

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is a new open specification for finding and verifying tools, skills, and agents across the web. The agent ecosystem works best when it’s decentralized — ARD gives agents a standard way to discover and trust resources without a single centralized registry.

Why This Matters

Resource discovery and auth tiers are foundational for any multi-agent ecosystem to scale safely. This overlaps directly with catalog and auth-tier design work in the agent resource discovery space.

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