Summary
On June 17, 2026 GitHub released agent finder for Copilot, which lets Copilot discover the right MCP servers, skills, agents, and tools for a task from a described goal instead of hand-wired configuration. It implements the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification developed with Google, GoDaddy, Hugging Face, and Microsoft.
What changed
GitHub launched agent finder across all Copilot plans: developers describe a task in plain language and agent finder searches an index of AI resources (MCP servers, skills, canvases, agents, tools), returning ranked matches Copilot pulls in on demand from any pointed-to catalog. It implements the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification.
Why it matters
Manually wiring which MCP servers and tools each agent can use does not scale as catalogs grow into the thousands. Runtime discovery via an open, multi-vendor spec turns tool selection into a search problem and pushes the ecosystem toward standardized, interoperable agent resource discovery.
Evidence excerpt
Agent finder searches an index of available AI resources, then returns ranked matches Copilot can pull in on demand... Agent finder implements the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification, developed in collaboration with Google, GoDaddy, Hugging Face, and Microsoft.