generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
source: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/.well-known/agent-card.json
provider: Agentic AI Foundation
providerId: agentic-ai-foundation
description: >-
  A2A Agent Card served by the Model Context Protocol project, an AAIF-hosted project. The card was
  fetched anonymously from the canonical /.well-known/agent-card.json path and saved verbatim. No other
  AAIF host serves a card: aaif.io, goose-docs.ai, agents.md, a2a-protocol.org, agentgateway.dev and
  registry.modelcontextprotocol.io all 404 on both the canonical and the legacy /.well-known/agent.json
  path.
card: agentic-ai-foundation-agent-card.json
discovery:
  path: /.well-known/agent-card.json
  canonical: true
  host: modelcontextprotocol.io
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-08-30'
  url: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/.well-known/agent-card.json
  http_status: 200
  content_type: application/json
grade: conformant
grade_basis: >-
  Graded against A2A 1.0.0. Hard checks all pass — capabilities is an object, protocolVersion is
  present ("0.3"), and skills is an array. The optional fields preferredTransport,
  defaultInputModes and defaultOutputModes are all present as well.
card_summary:
  name: Model Context Protocol
  url: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
  version: 1.0.0
  protocolVersion: '0.3'
  preferredTransport: HTTP+JSON
  provider_organization: Model Context Protocol
  documentationUrl: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
  capabilities:
    streaming: false
    pushNotifications: false
  defaultInputModes:
    - text/plain
  defaultOutputModes:
    - text/plain
  skills:
    - id: draft-sep
      name: draft-sep
      description: Research and draft a Specification Enhancement Proposal following the MCP SEP governance process
      url: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/.well-known/agent-skills/draft-sep/skill.md
    - id: search-mcp-github
      name: search-mcp-github
      description: Search MCP PRs, issues, and discussions across the modelcontextprotocol GitHub org
      url: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/.well-known/agent-skills/search-mcp-github/skill.md
deviations:
  - >-
    protocolVersion is "0.3" while the card is graded against A2A 1.0.0; the publisher is declaring the
    0.3 wire protocol, which is permitted but means a 1.0.0-only client cannot assume 1.0 semantics.
  - >-
    Both declared skills have empty tags[] arrays, so the card carries no machine-readable capability
    keywords for skill selection.
  - >-
    The card advertises no A2A task endpoint — supportedInterfaces points back at the documentation site
    itself (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/ over HTTP+JSON). The actual callable agent surface on this
    host is the MCP endpoint at https://modelcontextprotocol.io/mcp, which the card does not name.
notes:
  - >-
    The skills the card points at are real, fetchable Agent Skill documents (HTTP 200, text/markdown);
    both are saved verbatim in skills/ and indexed in skills/_index.yml.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com