GovTech's AI Agent Registry — Singapore Extends Oversight to 150,000 Public Officers' AI Agents

GovTech Singapore, the government's digital-transformation agency, announced on 2 June 2026 that it is building a registry of AI agents as part of its 'AI Assistant Desk' suite for the country's 150,000 public officers. The registry is designed to track who owns each AI agent and what actions it can take, addressing the specific risk that agentic AI can act and make decisions at machine speed without a human checking each step.

More than half of Singapore's 150,000 public officers already regularly use Pair, GovTech's existing generative-AI assistant, giving the registry a large base to build on. GovTech CEO Goh Wei Boon described the design as 'a layer of customisable rules, sanctioned AI tools and a registry to provide better visibility and security, so we can ensure that people use AI agents correctly,' including hygiene checkers that block actions such as unauthorised file deletion or external emails. The registry was being piloted with a subset of officers as of the announcement, with wider rollout planned for later in 2026.

As of the available reporting, the registry itself has no published count of agents registered or measured oversight outcomes — it is a governance design in early rollout, building on an already-adopted assistant, rather than an evaluated, mature control. Its effectiveness at preventing AI-agent misuse across a 150,000-strong workforce remains to be demonstrated.

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