# Amazon — Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-24T16:22:03+00:00
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova
- License: Apache License 2.0
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/agentic-resource-discovery-ard-an-open-specification-for-agent-discovery/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4374-agentic-resource-discovery-ard-an-open-specification-for-agent-discovery

Amazon announces the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) open specification for federated agent discovery across environments, and the AWS Agent Registry, a centralized catalog for agents, MCP servers, and tools, now in preview.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/agentic-resource-discovery-ard-an-open-specification-for-agent-discovery/:

> Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery
> How AWS Agent Registry and the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification enable cross-environment discovery for your agents

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