Agentic Resource Discovery: Let agents search

Hugging Face Blog · 4 weeks ago

A draft open specification called Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) was developed by Microsoft, Google, GoDaddy, Hugging Face, and others to let AI agents dynamically search for tools and capabilities at runtime rather than requiring pre-installation. Hugging Face implemented ARD in its Discover Tool, which provides search access to thousands of skills, ML applications, and MCP servers through a REST API endpoint. Agents can now find the right capability through natural language search across federated registries instead of relying on manually configured, static catalogs or dumping all tool descriptions into the language model's context window.