Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery
AWS launches open spec for agent discovery. Cross-environment agent governance just became possible at scale.
Why it matters
ARD is infrastructure for the agentic era — enabling organizations to catalog, search, and govern agents and tools across environments. This is the plumbing layer agents need to move from pilots to production deployments.
The key facts
8 to knowAWS Agent Registry: centralized catalog for agents, tools, and skills
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): open standard for cross-environment discovery
Focus on governance and scale deployment
Works across multiple environments (implies multi-cloud or on-prem + cloud)
AWS launches Agent Registry for centralized agent/tool/skill discovery
Backs open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) standard for cross-environment portability
Governance and discovery at scale is the use case—multi-agent, multi-environment deployments
Published Aug 24, 2026 (recent, infrastructure-phase announcement)
Go to the source
AWS Machine Learning Blogaws.amazon.com
Publisher excerpt: 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.