# Singapore launches a Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2026-01-22
- **Jurisdiction**: Singapore
- **Instrument**: Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Voluntary standard

## What changed

IMDA launched a voluntary governance framework for AI agents at the World Economic Forum, covering upfront risk bounding, human accountability, technical controls across the agent lifecycle and end-user responsibility, and said it was developing testing guidelines for agentic applications. Recorded from search extracts of IMDA and MDDI pages.

## What it means in practice

Organisations deploying AI agents can use it as a reference for governance and controls.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-CHG-0153 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0153; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-01-22-singapore-model-ai-governance-framework-for-agentic-ai
- **Official source**: https://www.imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/press-releases/2026/new-model-ai-governance-framework-for-agentic-ai
- **Source document**: New Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI
- **Published by**: Infocomm Media Development Authority
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-21
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Singapore launches a Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI" [AIPT-CHG-0153, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0153 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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