Hugging Face has introduced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open specification allowing AI agents to dynamically search for tools, skills, and other agents at runtime rather than relying on pre-installed capabilities. Developed with industry contributors like Microsoft and Google, ARD enables federated registries to catalog and index resources, improving scalability and reducing manual integration. Hugging Face’s reference implementation, the Discover Tool, already provides search access to thousands of skills and applications across its platform and other ARD-compatible services.