# Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Singapore
- **Instrument type**: Framework
- **Status**: Voluntary standard
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)
- **Published**: 2026-01-22

## In brief

The Singapore agentic AI governance framework is a non-binding framework of Singapore, issued by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). Its current status is voluntary standard. Organisations developing or deploying AI agents; voluntary guidance with no legal force of its own.

## Summary

A governance framework for AI agents that reason and act on a user's behalf, in four areas: assessing and bounding risks upfront, making humans meaningfully accountable, technical controls across the agent lifecycle, and enabling end-user responsibility. IMDA treats it as a living document and has since added case studies and input from more than 50 organisations.

## Scope

Organisations developing or deploying AI agents; voluntary guidance with no legal force of its own.

## Who it applies to

Developers and deployers of agentic AI systems in Singapore and elsewhere.

## Key dates

Launched 22 January 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos; later updated with case studies.

## Notes on dates

The date of the later update with case studies was not confirmed.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0241 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0241; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/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). "Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI" [AIPT-POL-0241, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0241 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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