interoperability
Google publishes ARD, an open standard so AI agents can find each other's tools News
Google published the Agentic Resource Discovery specification on June 17, an open standard letting AI agents discover and verify tools and other agents across companies -- backed by Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce, GitHub, Hugging Face and others.
SiLA 2 Tool
A free and open standard for laboratory instrument interoperability built on HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers, with a multi-part specification and a public repository. The incumbent open standard in the space AI-native hardware interfaces are now entering.
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Tool
Google's open specification and manifest format (ai-catalog.json) that lets AI agents discover and verify tools and other agents across organizations -- a directory layer for the agent web, backed by Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce, GitHub, and Hugging Face.