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 There are several formats associated with Character Cards. Each of them is completely unofficial and more consensus based than definitively declared. Each [[interfaces|interface]] has subtle behavioral differences that can have surprising results. The following specifications are described here to the best of our knowledge.
-==== Character Card ====
+===== Character Card =====
-  * [[specifications:ccpng|CCPNG]] explains how metadata is stored into a PNG, forming all (PNG) Character Cards
+The Character Card specification, formally called [[:specifications:CharaCard]], contains information about CharaCard version 1, 2, and 3 "standards" as well as a description of how this data is encoded into PNG metadata.
-  * [[specifications:ccv1|CCv1]] is the original, now outdated Version 1 metadata specification
+===== Lorebook =====
-  * [[specifications:ccv2|CCv2]] is the ubiquitous, Version 2 metadata specification
+Unlike Character Cards, Lorebooks are distributed as JSON text documents instead of being embedded into pictures. While several proposed standards circulate, two standards encompass nearly all Lorebooks in circulation.
-  * [[specifications:ccv3|CCv3]] is the increasingly popular, Version 3 metadata specification
-==== Lorebook ====
+The [[:specifications:CharaCard#Lorebook|CharaCard Lorebook]] standard is the most commonly accepted Lorebook standard. [[:interfaces:SillyTavern]] created another widely circulated format called [[:specifications:WorldInfo]]. While this serves a similar format, it has a completely different structure.
-While several proposed standards circulate, the only ones we've encountered are the following two:
+===== Other =====
-  * [[specifications:ccv2#Lorebook|CCv2 Lorebook]] is the lorebook format specified alongside CCv2
+  * [[specifications:GGUF]] This is a popular format for quantized LLMs.
-  * [[specifications:worldinfo|WorldInfo]] is the undocumented lorebook format used by [[interfaces:sillytavern|SillyTavern]]