Digital Agency rolls out Agent Chat to ministries from October 20

The Genai platform itself is not new: the Digital Agency began using it internally in May 2025 and launched a large-scale trial for about 180,000 employees across all ministries in May 2026, with the trial period running through March 2027. The agent environments extend that base, and the agency describes them as more advanced and complex than earlier Genai functions, with a broader range of executable processing. Alongside the rollout, the agency published governance, security, and safety standards for using AI agents, organized by the roles of user, administrator, and developer. Minister of Digital Affairs Toshikazu Furukawa said at a press conference that the standards could serve as a reference for local governments and private companies considering AI agent adoption as they think through AI governance in their own organizations. Asked about the significance of spreading a government-developed environment to the private sector, he said that using AI agents raises risks somewhat, and that it is meaningful for the government to take the lead in spreading their use in a safe and trusted environment. The agency plans to release both environments as open-source software around February 2027, a step that may extend the standards and tools beyond government, though the body does not state how private uptake will proceed.