# Singapore launches a starter kit for testing AI agents for safety and reliability

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2026-10-14
- **Jurisdiction**: Singapore
- **Instrument**: Starter Kit for Testing Agentic Systems for Safety and Reliability
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Guidance

## What changed

IMDA released a starter kit for testing agentic systems, setting out a four-step approach (identify risks, test realistically without real-world harm, analyse results and logs, monitor and retest) and metrics such as tool-use accuracy and human-intervention rates. The AI Verify Foundation named its first five accredited AI testers the same day. Recorded from press coverage; IMDA's own page was not found.

## What it means in practice

Teams deploying AI agents can use it to plan pre-deployment tests and ongoing monitoring.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-CHG-0154 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0154; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-10-14-singapore-starter-kit-testing-agentic-systems
- **Official source**: https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/singapore-strengthens-ai-safety-and-resilience-13295
- **Source document**: Singapore strengthens AI safety and resilience
- **Published by**: Smart Cities World
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: low
- **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 starter kit for testing AI agents for safety and reliability" [AIPT-CHG-0154, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0154 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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