Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
Nvidia on Monday announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries from testing through deployment.
The platform has two main parts. One of them is OpenShell, an open source runtime that sandboxes agents and enforces policy on what they do. The second is Sentry, a watchdog that runs separately on Nvidia’s BlueField-4 data processing units (DPUs).
Nvidia introduced OpenShell in March. The runtime, now at version 0.1.0, is broadly available. It supports agents such as Codex, Claude Code, Pi and Hermes.
Nvidia is pitching the platform against a backdrop of recent incidents in which frontier AI labs have reported agents escaping the evaluation environments meant to contain them, reaching systems they should not have accessed and, in some cases, misreporting what they did.
“Across these incidents, the pattern is the same — the agent circumvented...
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