Open Agent Safety Platform
Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open reference design that pairs the OpenShell runtime with a hardware watchdog called Sentry to contain AI agents.
Policy enforcement moves outside the agent and the model. OpenShell is an Apache 2.0 runtime that enforces policy in the Linux kernel, keeps credentials in a gateway outside the sandbox, and uses a policy prover to check boundaries before an agent runs. Sentry is an Nvidia hardware watchdog built on BlueField and DOCA, and Tom's Hardware says it can quarantine agents in milliseconds.
- Date
- Monday 28 September 2026
- Lab
- NVIDIA
- Kind
- product
- Access
- open standard
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| Industry partners | over 100 initiative involves over 100 industry partners | Tom's Hardware |
OpenShell is open and runs on Arm and x86, but Sentry is an Nvidia implementation on BlueField and DOCA, and Network World says no formal measurements have been published yet.
Sources
- tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-launches-open-agent-safety-p
- networkworld.com/article/4229669/nvidia-built-the-ai-factory-now-its-building-the-locks-fo
This record was partly confirmed: some claims could not be checked on 8 October 2026. How we check