AgentsAugust 24, 2026via AWS Machine Learning Blog
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery
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.
Key signals
- AWS 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)
The hook
AWS launches open spec for agent discovery. Cross-environment agent governance just became possible at scale.
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.