Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Checker

Probe for an Agentic Resource Discovery manifest advertising agent-consumable resources.

Checks /.well-known/ard.json and /.well-known/agentic-resource-discovery.json for a manifest describing the resources a site offers to agents. ARD is an emerging convention with no ratified specification and no single agreed path, so absence is expected for almost every site.

This is one of the checks the AI Agent Readiness Checker scores under API, Auth, MCP & Skill Discovery, and it can also be run on its own for any URL.

Experimental · Based on: RFC 8615 — Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)

About this validation

Experimental / emerging convention

Probes the well-known paths an Agentic Resource Discovery manifest is published at. ARD has no ratified specification and no registered well-known URI; only the well-known namespace it borrows is standardized.

Protocol / standard:: RFC 8615 — Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
Rules reviewed:: Nov 11, 2026

Standards and vendor-documented behavior can change. This reflects the source as last reviewed above, not a permanent guarantee.