Resources
Official ARD resources
Agentic Resource Discovery siteagenticresourcediscovery.orgThe project site: what ARD is and is not, the working group behind it, and a link to the rendered specification.ARD specification repogithub.com/ards-project/ard-specThe open-source ARD specification, currently v0.91 with the status "Proposal", licensed Apache 2.0. We validate against a pinned commit of it.
Research & industry sources
commercetools – AI trends shaping agentic commercecommercetools.com/blog/ai-trends-shaping-agentic-commerce73% of consumers are already using AI in their shopping journey.Accenture – Agentic commerce and the future of paymentswww.accenture.com/au-en/blogs/banking/agentic-commerce-payments$3.1 trillion of online commerce will run through AI agents by 2030 – more than 30% of all online commerce – per Accenture.
Validate other agentic protocols
UCP Checkwww.ucpcheck.orgFree validator for Universal Commerce Protocol.ACP Checkwww.acpcheck.orgFree validator for Agentic Commerce Protocol.ONX Checkwww.onxcheck.orgFree validator for Order Network eXchange.MCP Checkwww.mcpcheck.orgFree validator for Model Context Protocol.A2A Checkwww.a2acheck.orgFree validator for Agent2Agent Protocol.AP2 Checkwww.ap2check.orgFree validator for Agent Payments Protocol.