Google Chrome Policy API
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For Agents
Apply, modify, and resolve Chrome and ChromeOS policies across org units, groups, and printers in a Google Workspace customer.
Use for: Resolve the effective Chrome policy for an org unit, Apply a Chrome policy to multiple org units at once, Update group priority ordering for conflicting Chrome policies, Define a managed Wi-Fi network for ChromeOS devices
Not supported: Does not read fleet telemetry, manage Workspace users, or push files to devices — use for Chrome and ChromeOS policy resolution and modification only.
The Chrome Policy API lets Workspace administrators read, modify, and orchestrate Chrome and ChromeOS policies across organisational units, groups, and printers programmatically. It supports batch policy modification, group priority ordering for conflicting policies, network and certificate definitions for managed Wi-Fi, and resolution queries that return the effective policy for a given org unit. It is the write counterpart to the Chrome Management API.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Chrome Policy API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Chrome Policy API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Chrome Policy API.
Resolve the effective Chrome policy for a given org unit, group, or printer
Batch-modify policies on multiple org units in a single call to reduce drift windows
Apply group-targeted policies and reorder them when multiple groups affect the same user
Define managed Wi-Fi networks and pin certificates that ChromeOS devices must trust
Inherit or revert policies from parent org units in bulk
Upload custom policy schema files for organisations using extension-defined policies
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Chrome Policy API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Bulk Policy Rollout
Workspace admins push a policy change — for example, disabling a specific extension or enforcing a new homepage — across many org units at once via batchModify. The single batched call avoids drift windows where some org units have the new policy and others still hold the old value. The API also supports batchInherit to revert a unit to its parent's policy.
POST /v1/{customer}/policies/orgunits:batchModify with a policy disabling the chrome.urlBlocklist override across three org units.
Managed Wi-Fi Provisioning
IT teams define corporate Wi-Fi networks and trust certificates centrally and the API rolls them out to ChromeOS devices in scope. defineNetwork and defineCertificate handle creation, removeNetwork and removeCertificate handle removal. This eliminates manual provisioning on each device.
POST /v1/{customer}/policies/networks:defineNetwork with a WPA2-Enterprise profile for the corporate SSID and target the engineering org unit.
Group Priority Conflict Resolution
When users belong to multiple Workspace groups whose Chrome policies conflict, admins use updateGroupPriorityOrdering to set the precedence order. listGroupPriorityOrdering returns the current order so changes can be reviewed before commit. This is the recommended way to handle policy fan-out in large organisations.
POST /v1/{customer}/policies/groups:updateGroupPriorityOrdering with the desired ordered list of group ids for the chrome.users.bookmarkBarEnabled policy.
AI Agent Workspace Policy Operator via Jentic
An AI agent through Jentic acts as a junior IT operator — resolving the effective policy for an org unit, applying a policy change after admin confirmation, and verifying the new effective policy. Jentic isolates the Workspace OAuth credentials so the agent never holds the admin refresh token directly.
Through Jentic, search chromepolicy_resolve, load schema, and execute it for org unit /Engineering returning all schemas under chrome.users.*.
Key Endpoints
14 endpoints — the chrome policy api lets workspace administrators read, modify, and orchestrate chrome and chromeos policies across organisational units, groups, and printers programmatically.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies:resolve
Resolve the effective policy for a target
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/orgunits:batchModify
Modify policies on multiple org units
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/orgunits:batchInherit
Inherit policies from parent on multiple org units
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/groups:batchModify
Modify policies for multiple groups
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/groups:updateGroupPriorityOrdering
Set group priority ordering for a policy
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/networks:defineNetwork
Define a managed Wi-Fi network
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies:resolve
Resolve the effective policy for a target
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/orgunits:batchModify
Modify policies on multiple org units
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/orgunits:batchInherit
Inherit policies from parent on multiple org units
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/groups:batchModify
Modify policies for multiple groups
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/groups:updateGroupPriorityOrdering
Set group priority ordering for a policy
POST
/v1/{+customer}/policies/networks:defineNetwork
Define a managed Wi-Fi network
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
Google Workspace OAuth credentials with chrome.management.policy scopes are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Agents receive short-lived access tokens — refresh tokens never enter the agent context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g. 'apply a Chrome policy to an org unit') and Jentic returns the orgunits.batchModify operation with its parameter schema.
Time to first call
Direct integration: 2-4 days for OAuth setup, scope review, schema understanding, and policy targeting. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load, execute.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Chrome Policy API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Chrome Policy API use?
It requires OAuth 2.0 with the chrome.management.policy or chrome.management.policy.readonly scope on a Workspace super admin or delegated admin. Through Jentic, the credential is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and the agent receives only short-lived scoped access tokens.
Can I apply a policy to multiple org units at once?
Yes. POST /v1/{customer}/policies/orgunits:batchModify with a list of policy modifications, each targeting a different org unit. The API processes the batch atomically per request and returns per-modification status.
What are the rate limits for the Chrome Policy API?
Google enforces a per-project per-minute quota of around 240 write requests and higher read quotas. Use the batch endpoints (batchModify, batchInherit) to make bulk changes within quota rather than one-policy-at-a-time updates.
How do I resolve the effective policy for an org unit through Jentic?
Use the Jentic search query "resolve Chrome policy for an org unit" to discover the customers.policies.resolve operation, load its schema, and execute it with the customer id, policySchemaFilter, and the target org unit. Run pip install jentic to get started.
Can the Chrome Policy API target individual users?
It targets org units, groups, and printers — not individual users directly. To apply a policy to a single user, place the user in an org unit or group whose policy is configured accordingly.
Is the Chrome Policy API free?
It is included with Chrome Enterprise Upgrade and ChromeOS Enterprise licences. There is no per-call charge from Google for policy resolution and modification.
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