Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, Salesforce launch Agentic Resource Discovery protocol for agent tool access

According to CIO, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, Salesforce, and others released the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) protocol to standardize how AI agents discover and safely access tools and services within corporate domains. ARD addresses the enterprise deployment challenge of determining which tools agents should access and how to use them safely without hardcoded integrations.