The case files
Plain-English field notes on the agent-discoverable web: what the new standard is, why it matters, and how to get your site on the record. Written and kept current by the same tool that checks and generates ai-catalog.json files.
- What is ai-catalog.json?
The file that makes your site visible to AI agents, explained from zero.
- Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), explained
The 2026 standard from Google, Microsoft and Hugging Face, in plain English.
- A complete ai-catalog.json example
Copy-paste file with every field explained, and the three mistakes that fail validation.
- Make your website discoverable to AI agents
The whole process in five steps and about ten minutes.
- Hosting the file on every platform
WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Cloudflare, Netlify, Vercel and plain servers.
Free, ten seconds, no signup. Agent Ardvark inspects your domain against the official ARD specification and writes your ai-catalog.json if you need one.