AI Catalog (Agent Card Working Group)

Linux Foundationspecificationcore entry

Verified 2026-10-13. Status as of 2026-10-13. All entries.

Seams: S1S2

Status

Pre-v1 specification in "a temporary working repo maintained by the Linux Foundation", governed by a Technical Steering Committee with four initial seats. The well-known path is optional by design (ADR-0011). On 2026-10-13 the README of main still says "This is a temporary working repo maintained by the Linux Foundation" and "This project will be moved to a permanent location a later date with a permanent governance model."; the last commit of main is of 2026-10-08 (PR #119, implementation classifications); issue #46 (project location) was closed as completed on 2026-10-03 without a comment. PR #110 (did:web verification of signed Entry Trust Manifests) was merged on 2026-10-01.

Relevance

ADR-0011 (accepted 2026-04-02) says a well-known URI "should be registered as a conventional discovery location" but "is not mandatory", so catalogues may be served from any URL. Publisher identity is the most developed theme: urn:air anchored to a domain and did:web verification of signed trust manifests (PR #110, merged 2026-10-01), whose text says "This establishes publisher-domain control, not publisher reputation." Terms of service and privacy policy URLs are fields of the trust manifest (termsOfServiceUrl, privacyPolicyUrl); the maintainers' wording on Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is "Documents the decision to loosely couple ARD and AI-Catalog" (PR #77).

Committed next

• Technical Steering Committee (TSC) vote on the urn:air naming (issue #59): "We may require a TSC vote to move forward." (undated) [maintainer or chair statement] https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/59
• README: "This project will be moved to a permanent location a later date with a permanent governance model." (undated) [normative text] https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/README.md

Boundary

Access and monetization signalling is directed to an extension: "I would fully support this as an extension." (issue #83)

Author participation

The author of this map commented on PR #117 of the AI Catalog repository on 2026-10-06, on the policy URLs of the extension; see Disclosure.

Sources

• https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/README.md normative text, read 2026-10-13 · archived
• https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md normative text, read 2026-10-13 · archived
• https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/adr/0011-no-well-known-requirement.md normative text, read 2026-10-02 · archived
• https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/110 official decision or commitment, read 2026-10-13 · archived
• https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/blob/main/adr/0021-separate-artifact-identity-from-registry-coordinates.md maintainer or chair statement, read 2026-10-13 · archived
• https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/pull/77 official decision or commitment, read 2026-10-03 · archived
• https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/83 participant or third party, read 2026-10-03 · archived
• https://github.com/Agent-Card/ai-catalog/issues/59 participant or third party, read 2026-10-03 · archived

Overlaps

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), A2A protocol, agent discovery, MCP Server Cards (ext-server-card, SEP-2127)

Neighbours in the map

Solid lines: overlaps declared by one of the two entries. Dashed lines, coloured by seam: entries named by the same seam (S1 to S4) in the seams note. Every node is a link.

Evidence and coverage

Read

On 2026-10-13: the README and GOVERNANCE.md of main, the head of main, the list of ADR files, the state of PRs #91, #110, #117, #119 and issues #46, #59, #83, #86, #101, #114.

Not read

The Google document linked in PR #77, recordings, the Discord, other ADR files, the password-protected meeting page.

Not found

Not found in the items (2026-10-03): commerce, seller, GTIN.

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