Japan's Digital Agency begins providing an AI agent environment on "Gennai" for approximately 180,000 government employees, and publishes the security standard "Gennai Baseline"

Japan's Digital Agency announced on October 20, 2026 that it has begun providing two types of AI agent environments on "Gennai," the generative AI usage environment for approximately 180,000 government employees, and published the "Gennai Baseline" formulated in collaboration with the Japan AI Safety Institute (AISI). The lightweight "Agent Chat" is equivalent to Claude Cowork and will be introduced sequentially to each ministry and agency starting that day; external information is limited to web searches completed within the government cloud, and the AI can only rewrite files it created itself. "Gennai Kobo" is based on SageMaker Studio and Claude Code, targets introduction around December 2026, can read web pages but fully blocks outbound communications such as POST and PUT, logs communications, and preemptively blocks dangerous commands. The baseline requires employees to make the final judgment on AI output and bear responsibility, requires that operations affecting citizens' rights and interests restrict agent use accordingly, prohibits input of information with confidentiality level 3 and the like, and the baseline itself states that prompt injection countermeasures are not fully functional. Both environments are planned to be released free of charge as "Gennai OSS Ver.2.0" around February 2027, and the Digital Agency says that according to its survey, an introduction of this scale is a world-first attempt.