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Agent Card

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The JSON document an A2A agent publishes, usually at /.well-known/agent-card.json, describing its identity, skills, service endpoint and the authentication schemes it accepts. It can be signed with JWS over a canonicalised form, so a client can check that the card is untampered and comes from the claimed provider 1. A peer allow-list admits only registered agents with verified cards.

Developed in
ch. 23, Multi-agent systems and delegation chains
Chapters
ch. 23, AI Agents
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

One chapter of the Body of Knowledge uses the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Agent Card: mentions per chapter2 mentions of the term across 1 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapter23 AI Agents: 2 mentions23 AI Agents2No mentions in the other 22 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
Agent Card: mentions per chapter2 mentions of the term across 1 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapter0001020304050607081011121314151617181920212223 AI Agents: 2 mentions223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of Agent Card per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map0No
10 Reading List0No
11 AI Defined0No
12 Governance Program0No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents0No
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI0No
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0No
22 Principles & Standards0No
23 AI Agents2Yes
  • A2A (Agent2Agent protocol)

    An open protocol for agents to hand tasks to one another, at version 1.0 since March 2026 and a Growth Stage project of the Linux Foundation-directed Agentic…

  • Provider

    Under the EU AI Act, whoever develops an AI system or general-purpose AI model, or has one developed, and places it on the market or puts it into service…

Sources

  1. [1] Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Specification, v1.0 (v1.0.0 released 2026-03-12 and v1.0.1 on 2026-05-28 in github.com/a2aproject/A2A; Agent Card at /.well-known/agent-card.json, signed with JWS over JCS-canonicalised JSON; servers authenticate every request; authorisation implementation-specific; scope and revocation of in-task authorisation not defined). A2A Project (Linux Foundation). 2026-05-28. https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/specification/ (verified: primary)

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Agent Card. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/agent-card. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026agentcard,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Agent Card}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/agent-card}
}