2026-05-07 Directory Working Group Notes

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Attendees:

1. Ana Smith – Dell
2. Andrew Doellman – Cisco
3. Andrés Jáky – Cisco
4. Arpad Csepi – Cisco
5. Ádám János Tagscherer – Cisco
6. Bendeguz Csirmaz – Cisco
7. Catarina Paralta – Cisco
8. Elaine Powers – Cisco
9. Laszlo Gecse – Cisco
10. Luca Muscariello – Cisco
11. Mustafa Al-Bado – Dell
12. Ramiz Polić – Cisco
13. Tibor Kircsi – Cisco
14. Vivek Krishna - AWS

Key Topics Discussed:

1. Directory v1.3.0 Release Announcement

v1.3 Release
• Core Completion: v1.3 release completed across all core Directory components.
• Platform Simplification: Optional services have been moved out of the core repository.
• Testing: Compatibility and conformance testing added across SDKs and tooling.
• Versioning Strategy: Future releases will utilize separate versioning for core Directory versus optional components.

v1.4 Priorities
• Documentation: Focus on usability improvements.
• Workflow Simplification: Enhancements to local deployment, daemon setup, and Helm workflows.
• Packaging: Support for offline importer and packaging workflows.
• Integrations: AI Catalog integration priorities.
• Security: Simplification of authentication and authorization processes.

2. Demo: Terminal UI

• Overview: Demonstrated a Terminal UI for browsing and managing Directory records.
• Key Features Demonstrated:
• Multi-server connectivity.
• Filtering by skills, domains, versions, and trust state.
• Record preview and metadata inspection.
• Export/copy functionality.
• Future Enhancements:
• CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) workflows.
• Federated / DHT search.
• CLI and workflow integrations.

3. Open Discussion

a. Feedback on Priorities: AI Catalog + Interoperability
• Strategic Alignment: Discussed the alignment between Directory and the emerging AI Catalog effort.
• Interoperability: Focus on goals between registries and portable agent artifacts.
• Governance: Progress updates across A2A (Agent-to-Agent) and MCP (Model Context Protocol) communities.
• Standards: Ongoing work regarding validator, parser, and standards alignment.

b. Community Questions and Contributions: Enterprise Ownership + Discovery
• Use Cases: Enterprise ownership and organizational mapping for agents and MCP servers.
• Attestation: Approaches to ownership and attestation.
• Data Structure: Support for multi-owner records.
• Search/Navigation: Hierarchical search and graph traversal concepts.
• Mapping: Use of referrers, annotations, and naming systems for organizational mapping.
• Operations: Visibility, auditing, and observability use cases for enterprise deployments.

Links Shared:
https://agent-card.github.io/ai-catalog/
https://github.com/akijakya/lazydir
#1445
#1468