---
title: "Policy Card"
description: "A JSON-schema, machine-readable governance artefact that declares an agent's allowed and forbidden behaviours for runtime enforcement."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/policy-card
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-25
---

# Policy Card

A JSON-schema, machine-readable governance artefact that declares an agent's allowed and forbidden behaviours for runtime enforcement [1].

- Developed in: [ch. 05, Pattern: Policy Card](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns#pattern-policy-card)
- Chapters: [ch. 04, The Stack](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/the-stack) · [ch. 05, Patterns](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns) · [ch. 10, Reading List](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/reading-list) · [ch. 23, AI Agents](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-agents)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-policy-card

## Sources

[1] Policy Cards: machine-readable runtime governance artefacts for agents. arXiv 2510.24383. 2025-10. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24383 (verified: primary)