Title: Discussion 13 — One Artifact or Two?
Course: AIINFRA 300: Agentic AI & the Model Context Protocol (MCP) > Section: Week 13 — Human-in-the-Loop Workflows and Emerging Standards (A2A, [AGENTS.md](http://AGENTS.md))

💬 Discussion 13 — One Artifact or Two? (20 pts)

AGENTS.md and A2A's Agent Cards are both, in a loose sense, "agent-readable metadata" — machine-consumable documents that tell some agent how to work with a thing. But one targets a coding agent working inside a single repository, and the other targets an entirely separate agent trying to discover and delegate to a remote service. Post a response addressing:

- Should AGENTS.md and Agent Cards be thought of as the same kind of artifact, or are they fundamentally different — and what's your reasoning?
- Point to something concrete in each format (structure, discovery mechanism, intended consumer) that supports your position.
- Speculate: could you imagine a future where these converge into a single standard, or do their different audiences (coding agents vs. inter-agent discovery) mean they should stay separate?

Respond to at least two classmates, ideally ones who took a different position than you.