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Tech giants release open standard for AI agent tool discovery

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A consortium of major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and GitHub has released the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification. This new open standard aims to allow AI agents to securely publish, find, and verify tools and APIs across different organizations. ARD is designed to work alongside existing standards like MCP and OpenAPI, rather than replacing them. AI

IMPACT Standardizes how AI agents find and verify tools, potentially streamlining agent development and interoperability.

RANK_REASON Publication of a new specification for AI agent tool discovery by industry partners.

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Tech giants release open standard for AI agent tool discovery

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Google, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub, and other industry partners have published the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification. The open standard enables # AIa

    Google, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub, and other industry partners have published the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification. The open standard enables # AIagents to securely publish, discover, and verify tools and APIs across organizational boundaries. ARD complements MCP & O…

    LINKS infoq.com/…/agentic-resource-discovery-sp…

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