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title: "Comment by Steven Mock on \"Reading an A2A agent card: the card published by a travel information portal as an example (not a claim that it works)\" | Hashnode"
description: "I appreciate how careful this is about what it does not claim. “A card is a declaration, not a test report” is the sentence that should travel with every busine"
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[Steven Mock](https://hashnode.com/@stevenmock)

[Nov 7](https://hashnode.com/posts/reading-an-a2a-agent-card-the-card-published-by-a-travel-information-portal-as-an-example-not-a-claim-that-it-works/6aeeb0b95e99f48279a73573/comment/6aeebe115c8154293b3a89f4)

I appreciate how careful this is about what it does not claim. “A card is a declaration, not a test report” is the sentence that should travel with every business thinking about opening itself up to agents.

For a small business, the practical takeaway is the same as with any listing: don’t take the description at face value, start with read-only queries, and keep a person in the loop for anything that commits money or a booking — a human-confirmed request is not the same as a guaranteed seat or price. The A2A and MCP paths behaving differently is also a good warning: just because a business is discoverable one way doesn’t mean it works the same way through another.