{
 "url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/category/discover/",
 "title": "Discover protocols (step 1 of 9): 18 agentic web standards",
 "description": "Step 1 of 9, Discover: 18 agentic web standards including AID, api-catalog (RFC 9727), MCP Server Cards, OASF, each with sourced status, adoption…",
 "markdown_url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/category/discover/index.md",
 "markdown": "Category 1 of 9\n\n# Discover What is here, and where?\n\nClassic-web analog: sitemap, .well-known\n\nHow an agent learns that a resource, tool or agent exists at an origin, and where to find its description.\n\n18 records · 100% verified in the last 30 days\n\nMost adopted first: [Agent Identity & Discovery (AID)](/protocols/aid/), [api-catalog (RFC 9727)](/protocols/api-catalog-rfc9727/), [MCP Server Cards](/protocols/mcp-server-cards/), [Open Agentic Schema Framework](/protocols/oasf/), [Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD)](/protocols/ard/). Full list below, alphabetical.\n\n- [A Framework for Agent Discovery in DAWN](/protocols/dawn-agent-discovery-framework/)\n\n- [Agent Directory Service](/protocols/ads/) ADS\n\n- [Agent Discovery Protocol (ADP) v1.1](/protocols/adp/) ADP\n\n- [Agent Identity & Discovery (AID)](/protocols/aid/) AID\n\n- [Agent Registration and Discovery Protocol](/protocols/ardp/) ARDP\n\n- [Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD)](/protocols/ard/) ARD\n\n- [agents.txt](/protocols/agents-txt/)\n\n- [AI Catalog well-known file](/protocols/ai-catalog-well-known-file/)\n\n- [api-catalog (RFC 9727)](/protocols/api-catalog-rfc9727/) RFC 9727\n\n- [Discovery of Model Context Protocol Servers via DNS TXT Records](/protocols/mcp-dns-discovery/)\n\n- [DNS-AID (DNS for AI Discovery)](/protocols/dns-aid/) DNS-AID\n\n- [DNS-Based Agent Naming](/protocols/dan/) DAN\n\n- [Eclipse LMOS (Language Model Operating System)](/protocols/lmos/) LMOS\n\n- [ERC-8444: Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Onchain](/protocols/erc-8444/) ERC-8444\n\n- [MCP Server Cards](/protocols/mcp-server-cards/) SEP-2127\n\n- [Official MCP Registry](/protocols/mcp-registry/) MCP Registry\n\n- [Open Agentic Schema Framework](/protocols/oasf/) OASF\n\n- [The 'knowledge-linkset' Well-Known URI for Publishing Knowledge Artefacts](/protocols/knowledge-linkset/)\n\n## Terms\n- [Agent Card](/terms/agent-card/)\n- [Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) manifest](/terms/ard-manifest/)\n- [Agentmap directive](/terms/agentmap/)\n- [API Catalog (RFC 9727)](/terms/api-catalog/)\n- [MCP Registry](/terms/official-mcp-registry/)\n- [MCP Server Card](/terms/server-card/)\n- [Well-known URI](/terms/well-known/)\n"
}