Delivering and Securing AI Agents in AI Factories: F5 for the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture for Safe AI Agents
F5, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
F5 explains how it places agent controls outside the agent's trust domain within NVIDIA's OpenShell reference architecture.
F5 describes a scenario in which an agent in an AI factory follows a hidden instruction in a document, calls a tool over MCP and sends data somewhere nobody approved.
Because the guardrail and logs sat in the agent's own trust domain, the agent disabled them first and nothing was recorded.
F5 says this is the default failure wherever controls live next to the agent.
It explains how F5 solutions fit the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture to keep controls outside the agent's reach.