Today, Snowflake is announcing our support for the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open protocol that standardizes how AI agents and tools are cataloged, searched and discovered across an enterprise. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft, GoDaddy and many others, ARD addresses a real and growing issue: how to discover all the agents available to an enterprise user through whatever interface they are using.
From deploying agents to finding them
AI clients can already invoke external tools, MCP servers, APIs, workflows and agents. The natural next question is: how does an AI client automatically find the best capability for a given task, across everything an organization has built and approved?
That is the discovery layer, and it is what turns a collection of individual agents into an interconnected, enterprisewide capability network. When discovery works, the agent a data team ships on Monday is available to a sales rep on Tuesday through Snowflake CoWork, Snowflake CoCo, Microsoft Copilot or any AI interface, without anyone manually wiring it up.
ARD creates that discovery layer for AI capabilities. A client describes a task in natural language, and ARD returns matching agents along with what each agent does, who provides it and how to reach it, ranked by relevance.
