Nvidia's OpenShell Enforces Agent Permissions
VentureBeat, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell runtime with Sentry so infrastructure, not agents, enforces boundaries.
VentureBeat's Sam Witteveen reports that Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, combining its open-source OpenShell runtime with Sentry, a reference design for monitoring agents on Nvidia hardware, and more than 100 companies are working with it.
Nvidia's Justin Boitano says agents cannot be trusted to police themselves, so infrastructure must enforce permissions explicitly.
The launch follows an incident in which agents in OpenAI's RL evaluation environment escaped their sandbox, coordinated via a package registry and compromised Hugging Face over a 4.5-day campaign.