# Agent Cards Optimization: How To Structure Agent-Card.json

> Learn how to optimize agent-card.json so AI routers match you every time. AI Growth Agent shows you the exact steps to boost discoverability.

**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 optimization structures `/.well-known/agent-card.json` so routers can discover, route to, and trust your agent by clearly defining capabilities, endpoints, and boundaries.
- Precise skill definitions with narrow, non-overlapping boundaries and caller-focused tags prevent misrouting and support accurate skill-level matching.
- `securitySchemes` and `securityRequirements` must both be declared, with OAuth scopes mapped per skill, while credentials stay out of the public card.
- Static versus dynamic fields, proper versioning, and `Cache-Control` headers keep clients on accurate, current cards instead of stale routing data.
- AI Growth Agent automates agent discovery surface optimization and validation at scale. [See how it keeps your agent cards production-ready](https://aigrowthagent.co/book-a-demo/?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-optimization).

## Prerequisites And Starting Conditions

Before editing your card, confirm you have working knowledge of the A2A protocol, JSON schema, agent endpoints, and authentication concepts. Gather the following inputs:

- Your agent’s full capability list
- Endpoint URLs for every deployed interface
- Auth scheme, grant types, and OAuth scopes
- Rate and spend limits for documentation
- Versioning conventions for your deployment pipeline

Registry requirements, the A2A spec version your card declares, and whether the card is static JSON or generated at runtime all change how you execute the work.

## The Optimization Sequence At A Glance

Agent cards optimization breaks into six phases, each informing the next:

1. **Audit The Current Card.** Confirm it parses, validates, and resolves.
2. **Design The Skill Taxonomy.** Define narrow, non-overlapping skill boundaries.
3. **Write Tags And Retrieval Keywords.** Use the words a caller would search for.
4. **Declare Security And Guardrail Metadata.** Map scopes to skills and publish limits at the documentation URL.
5. **Set Static Versus Dynamic Fields And Version The Card.** Tie the version to the deployed build.
6. **Validate Against The Schema And Confirm A Live Call.** Run an end-to-end round-trip before shipping.

Skill boundaries determine tags. Tags determine retrieval matches. Guardrails determine whether a matched router can actually complete the call. Three handoffs sit outside this sequence but affect it: registry owners who index the card, identity teams who own OAuth scopes, and platform teams who enforce rate limits at the gateway.

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## Step 1: Annotate The Complete Agent-Card.json

The following is a complete, annotated card for a realistic financial analysis agent. Every field carries a comment explaining what a router does with it. [A2A v1.0 removed the top-level url and protocolVersion fields](https://mnemoverse.com/docs/library/a2a-agent-card). Both now live inside `supportedInterfaces` entries. [The path also changed from agent.json to agent-card.json in v0.3.0](https://github.com/a2aproject/A2A/releases).

```
{ "name": "FinSight Analysis Agent", // Router uses this as the primary label. Keep it specific. "description": "Analyzes financial data for revenue trends, cost-center variance, and cash-flow projection. Does not issue refunds, modify ledgers, or access trading systems.", // This is a routing decision aid, not a marketing headline. // State what the agent does AND where competence ends. "version": "2.1.0", // Semver of the agent itself, not the protocol. // Bump on every breaking change to skills, interfaces, or capabilities. "supportedInterfaces": [ { "url": "https://finsight.example.com/a2a/v1", "protocolBinding": "JSONRPC", "protocolVersion": "1.0" // First entry = preferred interface. Clients iterate in order. // Only list deployed interfaces. An aspirational entry causes // callers to pick a failing endpoint and not retry. }, { "url": "https://finsight.example.com/a2a/grpc", "protocolBinding": "GRPC", "protocolVersion": "1.0" } ], "capabilities": { "streaming": true, // Set honestly. Undeclared streaming calls return UnsupportedOperationError. "pushNotifications": false, // False means callers must poll. Do not set true without a working webhook handler. "extendedAgentCard": true // Signals an authenticated caller can retrieve a richer card // with internal skills and rate-limit details. }, "defaultInputModes": ["text/plain", "application/json"], // Use IANA media types, not friendly names. "defaultOutputModes": ["application/json", "text/plain"], "skills": [ // See Step 2 for full skill design guidance. { "id": "revenue-trend-analysis", "name": "Revenue Trend Analysis", "description": "Computes period-over-period revenue trends from tabular financial data. Accepts CSV or JSON. Returns trend lines, growth rates, and anomaly flags. Does not forecast beyond 12 months.", "tags": ["revenue", "trend", "financial-analysis", "time-series", "growth-rate"], "examples": [ "Analyze Q1 to Q3 revenue trends for the APAC region", "Show me month-over-month growth rates for product line A" ], "inputModes": ["text/csv", "application/json"], "outputModes": ["application/json"] }, { "id": "cost-center-comparison", "name": "Cost Center Comparison", "description": "Compares actual versus budgeted spend across cost centers for a given fiscal period. Returns variance tables and outlier flags. Does not modify budget records.", "tags": ["cost-center", "budget-variance", "spend-analysis", "financial-analysis"], "examples": [ "Compare Q2 actuals versus budget for engineering and marketing", "Which cost centers are over budget by more than 10%?" ] }, { "id": "cash-flow-projection", "name": "Cash Flow Projection", "description": "Projects 30, 60, and 90-day cash flow from accounts receivable and payable data. Returns scenario tables. Does not access banking systems or initiate transfers.", "tags": ["cash-flow", "projection", "accounts-receivable", "accounts-payable", "financial-analysis"], "examples": [ "Project 90-day cash flow given current AR aging", "What is our 30-day cash position if the Acme invoice pays late?" ] } ], "provider": { "organization": "FinSight Inc.", "url": "https://finsight.example.com" // Optional but earns its place in curated registries that index by provider. }, "documentationUrl": "https://finsight.example.com/docs/a2a", // Publish rate limits, spend limits, and SLA here. "securitySchemes": { "oauth2": { "type": "oauth2", "flows": { "clientCredentials": { "tokenUrl": "https://auth.finsight.example.com/oauth/token", "scopes": { "finsight.read": "Read-only access to analysis skills", "finsight.revenue": "Access to revenue-trend-analysis skill", "finsight.cost": "Access to cost-center-comparison skill", "finsight.cashflow": "Access to cash-flow-projection skill" } } } } }, // Defines available mechanisms. Credentials are obtained out of band. // Never embed an actual token or key in the card. "securityRequirements": [ { "schemes": { "oauth2": { "list": ["finsight.read"] } } } ], // Declares what is actually required. Omitting this leaves clients guessing. "signatures": [], // Optional JWS signatures per RFC 7515, canonicalized with RFC 8785. // Recommended for federated environments and curated registries. "iconUrl": "https://finsight.example.com/assets/icon.png" // Optional. Earns its place in human-browsable registries. }
```

The annotated card shows what each field contains. The table below maps each field to the specific routing behavior it triggers so you can see which fields carry the most weight.

### Field-To-Router-Behavior Reference

| Field | Required Or Optional | What The Router Does With It |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | Required | Primary label for registry indexing and system-prompt injection |
| `description` | Required | Routing decision aid, matched against task text semantically |
| `version` | Required | Cache invalidation signal, clients re-fetch on version change |
| `supportedInterfaces` | Required | Ordered preference list, client picks first compatible binding |
| `capabilities` | Required | Feature gate, undeclared features return errors when probed |
| `skills` | Required | Primary matching surface, tags and descriptions drive skill-level routing |
| `securitySchemes` | Optional | Tells caller which auth mechanisms exist before it attempts a call |
| `securityRequirements` | Optional | Tells caller which schemes must be satisfied, omission leaves clients guessing |
| `documentationUrl` | Optional | Where callers find rate limits, SLAs, and terms not in the schema |
| `signatures` | Optional | JWS verification of card authenticity and integrity in federated registries |

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## Step 2: Design Precise Skill Boundaries

Vague skills cause misrouting. [Two skills with overlapping descriptions split routing probability, so the router may not have a clear winner](https://psantanna.com/claude-code-my-workflow/workflow-guide.html) and may pick the semantically plausible but operationally wrong agent. Research on skill routing benchmarks found that [removing the full skill body caused a 29 to 44 percentage point degradation in routing performance](https://papers.cool/arxiv/2603.22455). Rich, specific skill text is therefore a critical routing signal.

### Weak Versus Strong Skill Definitions

The same skill written two ways shows how much routing signal each field carries. Compare the weak and strong versions field by field.

| Attribute | Weak Example | Strong Example |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `financial-analysis` | `revenue-trend-analysis` |
| `name` | Financial Analysis | Revenue Trend Analysis |
| `description` | Analyzes financial data for insights | Computes period-over-period revenue trends from tabular data. Returns trend lines and growth rates. Does not forecast beyond 12 months. |
| `tags` | `["finance", "analysis"]` | `["revenue", "trend", "time-series", "growth-rate", "financial-analysis"]` |

[The four required skill fields are id, name, description, and tags](https://deepwiki.com/a2aproject/A2A/2.4-agent-discovery-via-agentcard). Optional fields `examples`, `inputModes`, and `outputModes` earn their place when a skill takes unusual input types or when example phrasings improve invocation accuracy.

[The skill id is a stable machine identifier that callers may pin to](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json). Never reuse an `id` for different behavior. Keep it kebab-case and treat it as a contract.

## Step 3: Write Mandatory Specific Tags And Retrieval Keywords

Once skill boundaries are set, the tags attached to each skill become the next routing signal. [Tags became required in A2A v1.0 because they are what skill-level discovery filters on](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json). A client searching for a capability by tag does not parse the full description. It matches the tag array directly. A skill declared without tags fails validation in strict clients.

Tags should use the words a caller would search for rather than internal vocabulary. That caller vocabulary is usually three to six terms per skill, enough to cover the domain and the specific function without diluting the match. Tags that are too broad (`ai`, `agent`, `analysis` alone) match everything, and tags drawn from internal jargon match nothing outside your team.

The `examples` field is disproportionately valuable. [Two or three real request phrasings do more for correct invocation than another paragraph of description](https://agentcard.net/blog/how-to-create-an-agent-json). Write examples as actual user utterances, not capability summaries.

A tag checklist for each skill:

- Does each tag appear in the vocabulary a caller would use when searching for this capability?
- Are tags distinct from the tags on adjacent skills?
- Is the domain represented (for example, `financial-analysis`) alongside the specific function (for example, `revenue`, `trend`)?
- Are there three to six tags, enough to cover the domain without diluting the match?

## Step 4: Declare Authentication, Scopes, And Guardrails

[The A2A v1.0 schema defines securitySchemes as the available mechanisms and securityRequirements as the ones actually required](https://deepwiki.com/a2aproject/A2A/2.4-agent-discovery). Declaring schemes without requirements leaves clients guessing whether authentication is enforced. Declaring requirements without schemes leaves clients unable to satisfy them.

[Supported scheme types are API key, HTTP auth (Basic or Bearer), OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and mutual TLS](https://llm4agents.com/blog/a2a-protocol-agent-interop-standard). [A2A v1.0 removed the implicit and password grant flows and added device code and PKCE support](https://github.com/a2aproject/A2A/releases).

Map OAuth scopes to individual skills rather than to blanket agent admin. [Under A2A’s capability-based authorization proposal, skill invocations must include the authorizing capability, and the downstream agent MUST reject the call if the capability does not cover the requested resource handle or if the operation is not permitted by the grant](https://github.com/a2aproject/A2A/discussions/1404). The downstream agent must therefore enforce scope boundaries at call time. This means a caller holding only a revenue-scoped grant cannot invoke a cash-flow skill, and that boundary does not rely on prompt-level instructions.

Credentials are obtained out of band, as the card comments note. Embedding a key or token is a common validation mistake with serious security consequences.

[As noted in the card comments, the schema does not define rate-limit fields, so you document them at documentationUrl and enforce them at the gateway](https://agentcard.net/agent-card-schema). When a downstream agent needs higher privilege mid-task, [the correct pattern is to transition the task to the input_required state and obtain explicit human approval](https://dev.to/rosgluk/a2a-and-mcp-agent-security-identity-delegation-and-audit-trails-k3n) rather than upgrading tokens invisibly.

A guardrail checklist:

- `securitySchemes` declares every mechanism a caller might need
- `securityRequirements` declares what is actually enforced
- OAuth scopes are mapped per skill, not per agent
- No credentials appear anywhere in the card
- Rate and spend limits are documented at `documentationUrl` and enforced at the gateway
- `input_required` task state is implemented for mid-task privilege escalation

## Step 5: Separate Static From Dynamic Fields And Version Your Card

Static cards are fixed JSON files for agents with one capability set for all callers. Dynamic cards are generated per request based on caller identity or permissions, exposing different skills to authenticated enterprise callers than to anonymous discovery clients. The table below shows how each field behaves in both modes.

| Field | Static Behavior | Dynamic Behavior |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `supportedInterfaces[].url` | Hardcoded, must match deployed environment | Generated from server config, staging and production self-advertise correctly |
| `version` | Manually bumped on deploy | Generated from build metadata or git tag |
| `skills` | Fixed for all callers | Filtered by caller identity or scope, sensitive skills withheld from public card |
| `capabilities` | Fixed declarations | Can reflect runtime feature flags |

The versioning contract is strict. [Changes to skills[].id, supportedInterfaces[].url, or capabilities are breaking and require a version bump](https://webspecification.com/spec/agent-readiness/a2a-agent-cards). [That rule matters because clients cache cards aggressively, so a skill added without a version bump can take a day to be noticed](https://glippy.dev/glossary/agent-card).

Serve `Cache-Control` with a `max-age` directive and an `ETag` derived from the version field or a content hash. [Clients should use conditional requests such as If-None-Match to revalidate without re-downloading the full card](https://deepwiki.com/a2aproject/A2A/2.4-agent-discovery-via-agentcard).

## Step 6: Validate The Card And Confirm A Live Call

Run this validation sequence before shipping:

1. GET `/.well-known/agent-card.json` and confirm HTTP 200
2. Confirm `Content-Type: application/json` (or `application/a2a+json`)
3. Parse as JSON and validate against the A2A schema for the declared `protocolVersion`
4. Confirm `supportedInterfaces[0].url` resolves and speaks the declared binding
5. Confirm `skills` is non-empty and every skill has `id`, `name`, `description`, and `tags`
6. POST a `message/send` request and confirm a JSON-RPC response, not an HTML error page

[A common false positive on SPA-backed platforms is that the server returns the HTML shell with status 200 instead of a JSON 404](https://hivebook.wiki/wiki/a2a-agent-discovery). A `Content-Type` sniff disambiguates. Connect from a second A2A-speaking client and confirm at least one skill round-trips end to end before declaring the card production-ready.

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With the card validated, it helps to place it in context. An agent card is one of several discovery mechanisms and is often confused with MCP servers.

## Agent Card Vs MCP Server: Two Discovery Mechanisms, Not Alternatives

An agent card describes an agent as a peer you delegate a task to. An MCP server exposes tools and resources a model calls directly. The A2A protocol positions itself as complementary to MCP: use MCP for tools, use A2A for agents. An A2A agent may use MCP internally without exposing that detail through its card. The two are separate mechanisms and do not share a schema or a discovery path.

A second naming collision causes similar confusion: the payment card issued for AI agents.

## Agent Card Vs Payment Card For AI Agents

An agent card is a discovery and routing artifact served at a well-known endpoint. A payment card for AI agents is a tokenized credential with spend caps, merchant category controls, and velocity limits. [Agent virtual cards such as Ramp Agent Cards are tokenized virtual cards issued on the Visa network, scoped to a single agent and transaction, with real-time authorization checks for spend caps, merchant category rules, and velocity limits](https://ramp.com/blog/virtual-cards-for-ai-agents).

| Dimension | A2A Agent Card | Payment Card For AI Agents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Purpose | Capability discovery and task routing | Spend authorization and transaction control |
| Schema | JSON per A2A spec, fields for skills, interfaces, capabilities, security | Tokenized credential with spend caps, MCC allowlists, velocity limits |
| Discovery Mechanism | HTTP GET at `/.well-known/agent-card.json` | API issuance, not fetched by routers |

One artifact is fetched to decide whether to call an agent. The other is issued to authorize a transaction. They serve different purposes and do not share a schema.

## Card Performance Metadata And Routing Retries

Declare capabilities honestly so a router can plan. [A2A enforces capability declarations at call time: if a client attempts an operation requiring streaming but capabilities.streaming is not true, the agent returns an UnsupportedOperationError](https://deepwiki.com/a2aproject/A2A/2.4-agent-discovery). As the card comments warn, a router that picks a failing interface will not always retry with the working one.

[The rejected task state is a distinct terminal state that lets an agent signal it will not do work, such as over capacity, scope mismatch, or policy violation, without claiming failure](https://llm4agents.com/blog/a2a-protocol-agent-interop-standard). Orchestrators that receive `rejected` know not to retry against the same agent, whereas a `failed` state may trigger a retry. Using the correct terminal state is part of the routing contract.

## Common Agent Card Mistakes

- Over-documenting the card while under-specifying skills
- Writing descriptions for humans instead of routers
- Omitting limitations, so a router cannot tell where competence ends
- Using vague tags that match nothing or match everything
- Declaring `securitySchemes` without `securityRequirements`, leaving clients guessing whether authentication is enforced
- Declaring aspirational interfaces that are not deployed
- [Serving only the legacy /.well-known/agent.json path](https://glippy.dev/glossary/agent-card), which is not mentioned in the A2A v1.0 specification
- Embedding credentials in the card

## How To Troubleshoot Misrouting

Diagnose misrouting by comparing the task text against each skill’s description and tags, then checking whether two skills overlap. [The fix for overlapping skills is to sharpen distinctions and define explicit exclusions, such as clear “not for” boundaries](https://psantanna.com/claude-code-my-workflow/workflow-guide.html).

Check registry and spec dependencies. Confirm the registry indexes the fields you populated and that your card validates against the declared `protocolVersion`. Revisit earlier steps in order: skill boundaries first, then tags, then guardrails, then versioning.

An audit checklist:

- Does the card parse as valid JSON against the A2A schema?
- Does every skill have `id`, `name`, `description`, and `tags`?
- Are skill descriptions narrow enough that no two overlap?
- Do tags use caller vocabulary rather than internal vocabulary?
- Are all declared interfaces deployed and reachable?
- Are `securitySchemes` and `securityRequirements` both present?
- Has the version been bumped since the last breaking change?

## Verifying Outcomes And Measuring Results

Confirm the card works with objective signals such as successful discovery, correct agent selection, and reduced wrong-agent routing. Frame measurement qualitatively: routers should find the card, select the right skill, and complete calls without auth or capability errors.

Recommended monitoring approaches include logging card versions used per delegation and watching for changes in skills, endpoints, or required scopes. [Recommended controls include logging card versions used for each delegation and monitoring cards for changes in skills, endpoints, or required scopes](https://agentica.wiki/articles/agent-cards). Tie your review cadence to A2A spec releases and to any capability change in your agent.

[See how AI Growth Agent keeps your agent’s discoverable content and machine-readable surface optimized on autopilot](https://aigrowthagent.co/book-a-demo/?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-optimization).

## Advanced Scenarios And Next Steps

Complex environments introduce additional patterns that build on the same fundamentals.

- **Multi-Agent Systems.** Each agent publishes its own card. An orchestrator fetches and caches all cards at startup, then routes tasks by matching skill tags against the task text.
- **Multiple Cards Per Organization.** [A2A now allows an RFC 9727 api-catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog to advertise several agents under a single origin](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-jimenez-dawn-discovery-landscape-00), with each entry linking to that agent’s card.
- **Dynamic Runtime Cards.** Generate the card from the same config that configures the server so staging and production advertise themselves correctly, and filter skills by caller identity for the extended card.
- **Registry-Specific Requirements.** Enterprise registries may require signed cards, specific provider fields, or OASF-compatible skill annotations.

Adjacent topics to explore next include MCP servers, agent discovery standards such as the IETF DAWN working group’s emerging specifications, and [signed cards for federated environments using JWS per RFC 7515 and JSON Canonicalization per RFC 8785](https://blog.tobira.ai/how-a2a-agent-cards-work).

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How Long Does Agent Cards Optimization Take?

For a single agent with a clear capability set, auditing the current card and validating a live call typically takes a few hours. The work scales with the number of skills and the number of registries you publish to.

## Read Next

- [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-optimization)
- [Agent Cards Citation Optimization: The Complete Guide](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/agent-cards-citation-optimization?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-optimization)
- [How to Make Agent Cards for A2A Discovery](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/how-to-make-agent-cards?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-optimization)
- [Agent Cards Marketing Strategy: The 5-Step Framework](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/agent-cards-marketing-strategy?utm_campaign=ai-growth-agent&utm_content=agent-cards-optimization)
- [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-optimization)

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- **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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