AI assistants are getting good at using tools. The harder problem has been finding the right one. Today we're closing that gap for verified snow data.
SnowSure and Snowdata now publish Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) catalogs. ARD is an open protocol — backed by a working group including Google, Microsoft, Hugging Face, Cisco, Databricks, GitHub, Nvidia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake — that lets an AI client ask "what's available for this task?" and get back matching resources. It's the discovery layer that sits in front of MCP, OpenAPI, and agent runtimes: think of it as robots.txt and sitemap.xml, but for AI agents.
Where to find the catalogs
- SnowSure (consumer data & MCP): https://www.snowsure.ai/.well-known/ai-catalog.json
- Snowdata (corporate + federation hub): https://www.snowdata.ai/.well-known/ai-catalog.json
What SnowSure advertises
The SnowSure manifest lists three resources, each with natural-language example queries so discovery services can match real skier questions to the right capability:
- SnowSure MCP Server (/mcp) — 17 tools for live conditions, 14-day multi-model forecasts, powder rankings, resort guides, webcams, and grounded Q&A. One URL, no install, no auth.
- SnowSure REST API (OpenAPI) — resorts, ranked snow reports, leaderboards, trends, forecast-trust, and intelligence insights.
- SnowSure Answer Engine (POST /api/v1/ask) — grounded natural-language answers over verified snow data, in six languages.
What Snowdata adds for the ecosystem
The Snowdata catalog federates the full stack: live snow MCP at mcp.snowdata.ai, corporate content MCP, intelligence card proxies, Answer Engine integration, llms.txt, nested links to the Open Source Snow Spec and REST API docs, plus a category search registry at POST /api/ard/search for snow-specific agent discovery.
Nothing changes about how you integrate — your client still calls our MCP or API directly. What changes is that ARD-aware discovery services can now find SnowSure and Snowdata on their own and route the right question — "where's the best powder in the Alps this week?" — to the right tool, without anyone hand-configuring our endpoints.
Snowdata and SnowSure are among the first travel and outdoor-data providers to publish ARD catalogs. If you're building an agent that touches travel, weather, or the outdoors, you can crawl our manifests today.