# Agent Card Explained: A2A Protocol, JSON & Use Cases

> Learn what an agent card is in the A2A protocol, see JSON examples, and boost AI brand visibility. AI Growth Agent shows you how.

**Published:** 2026-09-12 | **Updated:** 2026-10-20 | **Author:** agent@aigrowthagent.co
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## Content

*Written by: Mariana Fonseca, Editorial Team, AI Growth Agent*

## Key Takeaways

- Agent cards fall into three buckets: A2A discovery JSON files, virtual payment cards for autonomous spend, and character cards for chatbot personas.
- The A2A agent card at `/.well-known/agent-card.json` powers machine-to-machine discovery with eight required fields in the v1.0 specification.
- Virtual payment agent cards from providers such as Ramp and Stripe enforce real-time budget caps and merchant controls at the network level.
- Character cards act as prompt containers for human roleplay and do not replace A2A discovery cards.
- AI Growth Agent ships the full agentic technical SEO stack for you, including agent cards, `llms.txt`, and Blog MCP, so your brand can be cited in AI search. [Book a demo](https://aigrowthagent.co/book-a-demo/?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-for-ai-chatbots).

## What An Agent Card Means In The A2A Protocol

In the [A2A (Agent2Agent) protocol](https://specification.website/spec/agent-readiness/a2a-agent-cards), an agent card is a machine-readable JSON discovery document that describes an agent’s identity, capabilities, skills, endpoint, and authentication requirements so other agents can discover it and decide whether to interact with it. Google originally [proposed the A2A protocol in April 2025](https://band.ai/guides/a2a-protocol) and [donated it to the Linux Foundation in June 2025](https://band.ai/guides/a2a-protocol). [Version 1.0 arrived under Linux Foundation governance on 12 March 2026](https://blog.tobira.ai/how-a2a-agent-cards-work), followed by [v1.0.1 as a patch release on 28 May 2026](https://blog.tobira.ai/how-a2a-agent-cards-work).

The agent card is the primary discovery mechanism for agent-to-agent interoperability. A calling agent fetches the card, evaluates the declared skills, capabilities, and security requirements against its task, and then calls the preferred interface. The [A2A v1.0 specification](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema) defines [eight required top-level fields and six optional ones](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema), all in camelCase.

Public reference architectures and open-source repositories such as the [FINOS AI reference architecture](https://blckalpaca.at/en/knowledge-base/ai-agents/a2a-protocol-basics/agent-cards-und-discovery) and the A2A project’s GitHub repository provide practical guidance on agent interoperability. Aligning with those sources increases the odds that AI systems can understand and reference your agent correctly.

A2A and MCP (Model Context Protocol) serve complementary roles. The official A2A documentation recommends MCP for tools and data connectivity and A2A for agent-to-agent delegation. MCP reduces complexity when connecting an agent to tools and data sources. A2A handles peer agent discovery, capability negotiation, and cross-organizational task delegation. Treating them as a single layer creates architectures that struggle to serve either purpose well.

## Agent Card JSON Example, Field By Field

This example shows a complete, copy-pasteable `agent-card.json` using real A2A v1.0 field names. Every field listed here appears in the [A2A v1.0 specification](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json).

```
{ "name": "Invoice Classifier Agent", "description": "Classifies incoming invoices by category and flags exceptions. Does not issue refunds or modify ledgers.", "version": "1.2.0", "supportedInterfaces": [ { "url": "https://agents.example.com/a2a/v1", "protocolBinding": "JSONRPC", "protocolVersion": "1.0" }, { "url": "https://agents.example.com/a2a/http", "protocolBinding": "HTTP+JSON", "protocolVersion": "1.0" } ], "capabilities": { "streaming": false, "pushNotifications": true, "extendedAgentCard": false }, "defaultInputModes": ["application/json", "text/plain"], "defaultOutputModes": ["application/json", "text/markdown"], "skills": [ { "id": "classify-invoice", "name": "Invoice Classification", "description": "Accepts invoice data in JSON or plain text and returns a category label and confidence score.", "tags": ["invoices", "classification", "finance"], "examples": [ "Classify this invoice: vendor Acme Corp, amount $4200, line items: office supplies.", "Is this a goods receipt or a service invoice?" ], "inputModes": ["application/json", "text/plain"], "outputModes": ["application/json"] } ], "securitySchemes": { "bearerAuth": { "type": "http", "scheme": "bearer" } }, "security": [ { "bearerAuth": [] } ], "provider": { "organization": "Example Corp", "url": "https://example.com" } }
```

Each field serves a specific discovery or invocation purpose:

- **name**: A human- and machine-readable identifier for the agent. Calling agents and registries use it to label the agent in logs and routing decisions.
- **description**: Written as a routing decision aid for another agent’s model. State what the agent does and where its competence ends.
- **version**: Describes the version of the agent itself, typically semver. [The A2A spec requires a version bump whenever the card content changes](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema) so clients can detect material changes and re-evaluate compatibility.
- **supportedInterfaces**: [An ordered array that replaces the v0.x url and preferredTransport fields](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema). The first entry is the preferred interface. Each entry [requires url, protocolBinding (JSONRPC, GRPC, or HTTP+JSON), and protocolVersion](https://agent-ready.dev/agent-card-validator). List only interfaces that are actually deployed.
- **capabilities**: [Three boolean flags: streaming, pushNotifications, and extendedAgentCard](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema). [Clients must not call features an agent has not declared](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema), and undeclared streaming calls return errors.
- **defaultInputModes** and **defaultOutputModes**: [Required arrays of IANA media types](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json) such as `text/plain`, `application/json`, or `image/png`. Individual skills can override these with their own `inputModes` and `outputModes`.
- **skills**: [Each skill requires id (stable kebab-case, never reused for different behavior), name, description, and tags (required in v1.0 for skill-level task matching)](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json). [The examples field is optional but disproportionately valuable for correct invocation](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json).
- **securitySchemes** and **security**: Declare authentication mechanisms and which apply to callers. [Credentials must never appear in the card itself](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema), which is a public document.

## Hosting Your Agent Card At /.well-known/agent-card.json

The [A2A specification registers /.well-known/agent-card.json as the standard agent card location](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema), following the IETF well-known URI convention in RFC 8615. [The exact path is https://your-agent.com/.well-known/agent-card.json](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json). Hosting the card at this predictable, standardized location lets other agents and AI surfaces find it without prior configuration or a registry lookup.

[Serve the file over HTTPS with Content-Type: application/a2a+json](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema) or `application/json`, which current clients accept. [A one-hour Cache-Control header works well, and an ETag improves cache behavior further](https://specification.website/spec/agent-readiness/a2a-agent-cards). [The card must return an HTTP 200 response](https://agent-ready.dev/agent-card-validator). [Clients that enforce stricter rules will reject a card served as text/plain](https://webspecification.com/spec/agent-readiness/a2a-agent-cards).

[The url values inside supportedInterfaces must point to the agent’s actual reachable endpoints](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json). Listing an aspirational endpoint that is not deployed causes calling agents to pick it, fail, and skip a working alternative. [Older v0.x deployments used /.well-known/agent.json](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema). Publishing both paths during a transition period avoids silent undiscoverability.

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## Agent Cards As Virtual Payment Cards For AI Agents

The term agent card also refers to a virtual payment card issued to an AI agent so it can transact autonomously on behalf of a business or user. This payment meaning sits alongside the A2A discovery card and drives a separate set of engineering decisions.

Four providers dominate this space. [Ramp](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents) offers [Agent Cards built on Visa Intelligent Commerce with real-time authorization checks including spend caps, merchant category code (MCC) allowlists, velocity limits, and geofencing](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents). [Stripe](https://crossmint.com/learn/agent-card-payments-compared) [provides programmatic virtual card issuance via Stripe Issuing and Shared Payment Tokens scoped to a specific business, time-limited, and amount-capped](https://crossmint.com/learn/agent-card-payments-compared). [Crossmint](https://crossmint.com/learn/agent-card-payments-compared) [issues virtual card credentials derived from Visa and Mastercard networks with spending controls, merchant whitelisting, and stablecoin onramps](https://crossmint.com/learn/agent-card-payments-compared). [Mercury](https://crossmint.com/learn/agent-card-payments-compared) offers spend management infrastructure for AI-native workflows.

These controls operate at different points in the transaction. [Budget caps are enforced at the network level](https://agentcard.ai/blog/ai-agent-spending-limits), so no prompt injection or application bug can cause an overcharge once the card’s loaded balance is exhausted. If an agent hits that cap mid-transaction, the authorization is declined in real time and the transaction does not complete. [MCC-based restrictions define an allowlist of approved merchant categories](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents), which blocks off-policy purchases such as gift cards or consumer marketplaces. [Single-use cards self-destruct after one transaction](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents), which removes stored-credential risk. Even after deactivation, [refunds on a single-use card route back to the original funding source](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents) with the original transaction metadata preserved for reconciliation.

## Agent Cards Vs Character Cards For Chatbot Personas

Character cards are [SillyTavern-style PNG or JSON persona files](https://sillytavern.us/en/character-cards) that encode everything an AI chatbot needs to roleplay a specific persona: name, description, personality, scenario, first message, and example dialogue. [The PNG format stores character data as base64-encoded JSON in the image’s tEXt chunk](https://ourdream.ai/sex-chat/character-cards), which makes the file both a visual avatar and a portable prompt container. Character cards are read by the client to shape the AI’s in-character behavior, dialogue style, and backstory.

The structural contrast with an A2A discovery card is direct. [An A2A agent card is a machine-readable discovery and delegation interface](https://band.ai/guides/a2a-protocol) describing identity, skills, endpoints, authentication schemes, and protocol version so other agents can invoke it programmatically. A character card instead describes a persona for human interaction and roleplay.

## Decision Table: Matching Your Use Case To The Right Agent Card

The three meanings of agent card map to different problems. Use this table to match your goal to the correct format before you start building.

| If You Are Trying To… | You Need | Where It Lives | Key Spec Or Provider |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Make your agent discoverable to other agents | A2A discovery card | `/.well-known/agent-card.json` | [A2A v1.0 spec](https://specification.website/spec/agent-readiness/a2a-agent-cards) |
| Let your agent pay for things autonomously | Virtual payment card with budget caps and merchant restrictions | Issued via API or MCP server | [Ramp](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents), [Stripe, Crossmint](https://crossmint.com/learn/agent-card-payments-compared) |
| Define a chatbot’s personality for roleplay or companion use | Character card (PNG or JSON) | Local file or community archive | [SillyTavern spec](https://sillytavern.us/en/character-cards) |
| Make your brand discoverable and citable across AI surfaces | Machine-readable brand presence layer | `/.well-known/`, `llms.txt`, schema, Blog MCP | AI Growth Agent |
| Expose tools and data sources to a single agent | MCP server | MCP endpoint | Model Context Protocol |

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## How Agent Cards Support Brand Visibility In AI Search

Agent cards sit inside a broader machine-readable layer that AI surfaces use to find, evaluate, and cite a brand. [PwC’s April 2026 analysis of agentic commerce](https://pwc.com/us/en/technology/alliances/library/agentic-commerce-discoverability.html) notes that brands missing from synthesized AI responses often drop out of consideration entirely rather than appearing lower in a ranking. Agentic web traffic grew 1,300% in the first eight months of 2025, and [agent protocol readiness checks now measure whether a site publishes machine-readable descriptors](https://searchengineland.com/tools/ai-agent-readiness-checker) such as `agent.json` or `.well-known/mcp.json` as a prerequisite for AI discoverability.

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## Conclusion

The term agent card covers three structurally different things: the A2A discovery card that makes an agent findable and invocable by other agents, the virtual payment card that gives an agent autonomous spending authority within defined controls, and the character card that defines a chatbot’s persona for human interaction. For engineers tasked with making an agent discoverable, the A2A discovery card at `/.well-known/agent-card.json` is the governing interpretation, and the eight required fields in the v1.0 spec are the starting point.

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## Frequently Asked Questions

### What Is The Difference Between An A2A Agent Card And An MCP Server?

An A2A agent card is a discovery document that describes an entire agent, including identity, skills, endpoint, capabilities, and authentication requirements, so other agents can find it and decide whether to delegate work to it. MCP (Model Context Protocol) operates at a different layer and connects a single agent downward to tools, data sources, and prompts. As covered earlier, MCP connects an agent to its tools while A2A handles peer discovery and delegation.

### Do I Need To Register My Agent Card Somewhere, Or Is Hosting It At /.well-known/ Enough?

[Hosting the card at /.well-known/agent-card.json on your agent’s domain is the baseline requirement for direct point-to-point discovery](https://blckalpaca.at/en/knowledge-base/ai-agents/a2a-protocol-basics/agent-cards-und-discovery). [Any calling agent that already knows your domain can fetch the card with a single unauthenticated GET request](https://mastra.ai/blog/what-is-agent-to-agent-protocol) and begin evaluating your agent’s skills and capabilities. [No registry is required for this to work](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json). [The A2A protocol also supports directory-based discovery, where cards are registered in a central catalog or enterprise registry, and direct configuration, where the card URL is pre-provisioned](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/integrations/by-component/agent-services/a2a). The well-known URI path is the foundation all three approaches share. [Publishing a Link response header pointing to the card path and adding the same link to your /.well-known/api-catalog Linkset entry](https://specification.website/spec/agent-readiness/a2a-agent-cards) improves discoverability further without requiring any registry.

### What Happens If An AI Agent Exceeds Its Budget Cap On A Virtual Payment Card?

[When an AI agent attempts a transaction that exceeds the loaded balance or per-transaction spend limit on a virtual payment card, the authorization is declined in real time at the network level before the transaction completes](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents). This enforcement happens at the payment network layer, which means no prompt injection, application bug, or hallucination can cause an overcharge once the card’s limit is reached. [Single-use cards self-destruct after one transaction regardless of whether the full balance was used](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents). [For recurring or multi-step agent workflows, the recommended pattern is to issue a separate card scoped to each task with its own budget](https://agentcard.ai/blog/ai-agent-spending-limits), so spend can be traced per task and a failed authorization on one card does not affect other agent operations. [Refunds on a depleted or deactivated card route back to the original funding source with the original transaction metadata preserved](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents).

### Can A Character Card Be Used As An A2A Agent Card?

No. A character card is a prompt container that defines a chatbot’s persona, speaking style, backstory, and dialogue examples for human interaction. [It has no fields for endpoints, protocol bindings, authentication schemes, or machine-readable capability declarations](https://ourdream.ai/sex-chat/character-cards). As the comparison above explains, the two formats share no fields, so a character card cannot function as an A2A agent card.

### How Does Publishing An Agent Card Affect Brand Visibility In AI Search?

[Publishing a well-formed agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json is one component of a broader machine-readable brand presence layer](https://agentcard.org) that AI surfaces use to find, evaluate, and cite a brand. The same discovery convention that lets one agent locate another forms part of the infrastructure that AI search platforms read when determining which sources to trust and cite. A complete machine-readable brand presence layer also includes `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt` so AI surfaces can read the brand’s content in the format they need, Blog MCP for direct interoperability with AI search, full schema markup across every page, and authoritative content that validates every claim with primary sources. [Agent card publication alone does not produce AI citations; it is one signal in a stack of structured, machine-readable signals](https://blog.tobira.ai/how-a2a-agent-cards-work) that together determine whether an AI surface treats a brand as a recognized, trustworthy entity worth citing in its answers.

## Read Next

- [How Agent Cards Work in the A2A Protocol](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/how-agent-cards-work?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-for-ai-chatbots)
- [Agent Cards in AI Search: What They Are & How They Work](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/agent-cards-ai-search?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-for-ai-chatbots)
- [Agent Cards Integration: A2A Protocol & Payments](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/agent-cards-integration?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-for-ai-chatbots)
- [Agent Cards Best Practices for AI Agent Discovery](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/agent-cards-best-practices?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-for-ai-chatbots)
- [Benefits of Agent Cards: A Strategic Guide for Enterprise AI](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/benefits-of-agent-cards?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-for-ai-chatbots)

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## Available AI Resources

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- **LLMs.txt:** [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/llms.txt](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/llms.txt) — Basic site guide for Large Language Models
- **LLMs-Full.txt:** [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/llms-full.txt](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/llms-full.txt) — Complete detailed guide
- **MCP Server (Model Context Protocol):** [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/wp-json/ai-growth-seo/v1/mcp/](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/wp-json/ai-growth-seo/v1/mcp/) — Full MCP-compatible API for AI agents to discover, read, and analyze content
  - Manifest: [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/wp-json/ai-growth-seo/v1/mcp/manifest](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/wp-json/ai-growth-seo/v1/mcp/manifest)
  - Schema: [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/wp-json/ai-growth-seo/v1/mcp/schema](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/wp-json/ai-growth-seo/v1/mcp/schema)
  - Discovery: [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/wp-json/ai-growth-seo/v1/mcp/discover](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/wp-json/ai-growth-seo/v1/mcp/discover)
  - Well-Known: [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/.well-known/mcp](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/.well-known/mcp)
- **WebMCP (Client-Side MCP):** This site supports WebMCP — client-side Model Context Protocol for browser-based AI agents (Chrome 146+)
- **Semantic Search:** [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/?s={query}](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/?s=) — AI-enhanced semantic search with natural language understanding and intelligent results
- **Web Stories:** [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/web-stories-sitemap.xml](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/web-stories-sitemap.xml) — AMP Web Stories for rich visual content experiences

## Discovery Endpoints for AI Agents

AI agents should consult these machine-readable discovery endpoints to integrate with this site:

- **OpenAI Plugin Manifest:** [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/.well-known/ai-plugin.json](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/.well-known/ai-plugin.json)
- **A2A Agent Card:** [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/.well-known/agent-card.json](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/.well-known/agent-card.json)
- **MCP Server (Streamable HTTP):** [https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/.well-known/mcp](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/.well-known/mcp)

## Citations

- [AI Marketing Tools For Private Equity Portfolio Companies](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/best-ai-marketing-tools-private-equity/)
- [How To Find Sources AI Uses To Describe Brands](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/find-sources-ai-describes-brands/)
- [AI Brand Performance Dashboard: Measure, Build & Prove It](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/ai-brand-performance-dashboard-guide/)
- [AI Visibility Audit Tools for Challenger Brands](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/best-ai-visibility-audit-tools/)
- [Best White Label AI Brand Narrative Platforms for Agencies](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/best-white-label-ai-brand-platform/)

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