Agentic resource discovery
Skill NetFabric/intelligentium/.agents/skills/agentic-resource-discovery
Open specification (ARD v0.9) for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities (MCP servers, A2A agents, skills, APIs) across federated networks. USE FOR: creating ai-catalog.json manifests; catalog entry schema; URN identifier format (urn:air:<publisher>:<namespace>:<name>); hosting at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json; DNS discovery (TXT/SRV records); Agentmap robots.txt directive; POST /search API; POST /explore API; GET /agents list API; federation modes (auto, referrals, none); trustManifest with SPIFFE/DID/attestations; representativeQueries for semantic search; building ARD registry clients; querying discovery services at runtime. DO NOT USE FOR: implementing MCP server tools (use MCP docs); implementing A2A agent cards (use A2A spec); OAuth/OIDC authentication.From its SKILL.md
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Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD)
ARD v0.9 (Draft) — federated open specification for cataloging, discovering, and verifying agentic resources. Developed by Microsoft, Google, Hugging Face, and others. Apache 2.0.
Core Concepts
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Catalog | Static ai-catalog.json manifest hosted on a domain |
| Registry | Searchable service that crawls & indexes catalogs |
| Entry | Single capability record within a catalog |
| Federation | Registry-to-Registry routing (auto / referrals / none) |
| trustManifest | Cryptographic identity & compliance metadata per entry |
Publish in 3 Steps
- Create
ai-catalog.jsonwith entries → references/data-model.md - Host at
https://<domain>/.well-known/ai-catalog.json(HTTPS,Content-Type: application/json, CORS*) → references/publishing.md - (Optional) Add DNS
TXT/SRVrecords for alternate paths → references/publishing.md
Catalog Entry — Required Fields
| Field | Type | Rule |
|---|---|---|
identifier | String | urn:air:<publisher>:<namespace>:<name>; <publisher> must be FQDN |
displayName | String | Human-readable label |
type | String | IANA media type (see table below) |
url or data | String / Object | Exactly one; mutually exclusive |
Common type Values
| Type | Resource |
|---|---|
application/mcp-server-card+json | MCP server |
application/a2a-agent-card+json | A2A agent |
application/ai-skill+md | Copilot skill |
application/ai-catalog+json | Nested / linked catalog |
application/ai-registry+json | Dynamic registry search endpoint |
ARD API at a Glance
| Endpoint | Required | Use |
|---|---|---|
POST /search | Yes | Semantic search; returns ranked entries + optional referrals |
POST /explore | No | Faceted aggregation (counts by type, publisher, …) |
GET /agents | No | Deterministic paginated listing with filter/orderBy |
Full schemas → references/api.md
Federation Modes (federation field in POST /search)
| Mode | Behavior |
|---|---|
auto | Registry merges upstream results transparently |
referrals | Returns local results + referral registry entries for client-directed follow-up |
none | Scoped to queried registry only |
Reference Files
| File | Load When |
|---|---|
| references/data-model.md | Full catalog schema, URN format, optional fields, nested catalog examples |
| references/api.md | Search / Explore / List request & response JSON schemas |
| references/publishing.md | Hosting, DNS TXT/SRV, Agentmap, robots.txt, HTML link tag |
| references/trust.md | trustManifest object, SPIFFE, DID, attestations, provenance, signatures |