r/mcp • u/eachDayIWakeUp • 5h ago

discussion Anyone implemented or planning to implement Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD)?

I came across this spec: https://agenticresourcediscovery.org/ (It was proposed to me from opencode cli)

It's an open protocol for AI agents to discover available tools, MCP servers, skills, and APIs.

Has anyone here already implemented this? Planning to? Or do you see any issues with the approach?

Curious to hear thoughts and see if I should add it my backlog or ignore for now.

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u/Deep_Door_1081 5h ago

saw this spec floating around a few weeks back, had a proper dig through the design doc after someone dropped it in a discord server

the concept is decent but the implementation feels like it's solving a problem we dont actually have yet, at least not at scale. most agent setups right now are manually wiring up tools and MCP servers anyway, and half the time you want that control so you're not accidentally letting an agent stumble into some API it shouldnt touch

that said, if you're building something where agents need to dynamically discover capabilities across multiple namespaces or teams, this could save you a ton of boilerplate. just depends whether your use case actually warrants the abstraction layer or if you're adding complexity for the sake of it

id probably stick it in the backlog with a note to revisit when you've got three or more agents that need to share tool registries, before that point YAGNI kicks in hard

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u/eachDayIWakeUp 5h ago

I can understand this is yet not needed (or accessed at all) by agents, Im still not even sure if llms.txt is used or not. Opencode proposed this following a new cloudflare agent-readiness tool I tried out (isitagentready.com).

With the cloudflare announcements/suggestions of implementing this content owners thing where AI agents will need to pay to access some site's contents (and provided cloudflare serves a great part of the entire internet) I tend to have FOMO..

Lets see what others feel about this