# ARD resources

### Official ARD resources

- **Agentic Resource Discovery site** — https://agenticresourcediscovery.org — The project site: what ARD is and is not, the working group behind it, and a link to the rendered specification.
- **ARD specification repo** — https://github.com/ards-project/ard-spec — The 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 commerce** — https://commercetools.com/blog/ai-trends-shaping-agentic-commerce — 73% of consumers are already using AI in their shopping journey.
- **Accenture – Agentic commerce and the future of payments** — https://www.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 Check** — https://www.ucpcheck.org — Free validator for Universal Commerce Protocol.
- **ACP Check** — https://www.acpcheck.org — Free validator for Agentic Commerce Protocol.
- **ONX Check** — https://www.onxcheck.org — Free validator for Order Network eXchange.
- **MCP Check** — https://www.mcpcheck.org — Free validator for Model Context Protocol.
- **A2A Check** — https://www.a2acheck.org — Free validator for Agent2Agent Protocol.
- **AP2 Check** — https://www.ap2check.org — Free validator for Agent Payments Protocol.

### Spec compliance the easy way

- **CorgiMaps** — https://www.corgimaps.com — Generate protocol-compliant endpoints in minutes and stay compliant as the specs change – no custom build and no changes to your fulfillment stack.