The specification lists the following companies as collaborators on the announcement :
Satya Nadella made the decision for Microsoft to participate, Alan Eustace for Google, and co-developers also include Yahoo .
Snowflake announced its support for ARD on June 17, 2026, describing it as "an open protocol that standardizes how AI agents and tools are cataloged, searched and discovered across an enterprise" . This builds on Snowflake's broader strategic pivot to become the control plane for the agentic enterprise, articulated throughout 2026 .
Key elements of that strategy include:
ARD support fits specifically as the discovery layer for that agent ecosystem — it lets Snowflake's agents find third-party tools and lets third-party agents find Snowflake-hosted resources, moving Snowflake from being merely a data warehouse toward an open, interoperable agent platform .
The specification lists the following companies as collaborators on the announcement :
Satya Nadella made the decision for Microsoft to participate, Alan Eustace for Google, and co-developers also include Yahoo .
Snowflake announced its support for ARD on June 17, 2026, describing it as "an open protocol that standardizes how AI agents and tools are cataloged, searched and discovered across an enterprise" . This builds on Snowflake's broader strategic pivot to become the control plane for the agentic enterprise, articulated throughout 2026 .
Key elements of that strategy include:
ARD support fits specifically as the discovery layer for that agent ecosystem — it lets Snowflake's agents find third-party tools and lets third-party agents find Snowflake-hosted resources, moving Snowflake from being merely a data warehouse toward an open, interoperable agent platform .