NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform on Sept. 28, 2026, describing it as an open software platform and reference system design intended to strengthen AI security from agent testing through deployment. The platform is designed to provide full-stack governance and control across the software used by agents and the hardware, compute and robotics systems on which they operate, with organizations able to deploy individual elements according to their requirements. It includes OpenShell secure runtime software, now broadly available, which establishes boundaries for agents running on CPUs and supports agents using open and closed models. As open-source software, OpenShell can also be extended to third-party compute platforms, including those from Arm and Intel. The reference design further includes NVIDIA Sentry, an out-of-band watchdog running on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs to monitor agent behavior continuously. NVIDIA says Sentry can quarantine and stop an agent within milliseconds if it attempts to cross its software boundary. Built on NVIDIA DOCA software, Sentry is designed to inspect agent requests and responses, verify agent identity, provide attested telemetry and enforce granular zero-trust access policies.
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NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform on Sept. 28, 2026, describing it as an open software platform and reference system design intended to strengthen AI security from agent testing through deployment. The platform is designed to provide full-stack governance and control across the software used by agents and the hardware, compute and robotics systems on which they operate, with organizations able to deploy individual elements according to their requirements. It includes OpenShell secure runtime software, now broadly available, which establishes boundaries for agents running on CPUs and supports agents using open and closed models. As open-source software, OpenShell can also be extended to third-party compute platforms, including those from Arm and Intel. The reference design further includes NVIDIA Sentry, an out-of-band watchdog running on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs to monitor agent behavior continuously. NVIDIA says Sentry can quarantine and stop an agent within milliseconds if it attempts to cross its software boundary. Built on NVIDIA DOCA software, Sentry is designed to inspect agent requests and responses, verify agent identity, provide attested telemetry and enforce granular zero-trust access policies.