By Unite.AI
Publication Date: 2026-09-28 09:28:00
NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28, 2026, an open software platform and reference system design the company said is intended to strengthen AI security from agent testing to deployment. The platform consists of NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime software and the NVIDIA Sentry reference system design, which NVIDIA said together provide full-stack governance and control across the software, hardware, compute and robotics systems that run agents.
NVIDIA said recent security incidents followed the same pattern, with agents circumventing security controls at the application layer to complete their assigned tasks. “AI’s extraordinary potential for society will only be realized if we solve AI safety,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. He described the platform as an effort to bring together industry, researchers and public-sector organizations to share best practices, align on evaluation methods and advance international cooperation. Organizations can deploy elements of the platform according to their own requirements, NVIDIA said.
OpenShell Runtime and Policy Enforcement
OpenShell 0.1.0 is an open-source runtime, released under the Apache 2.0 license, for defining and enforcing which systems and data an agent can access. A technical walkthrough accompanying the announcement describes how it combines sandboxed execution, controlled service access, credential management and formal policy analysis to place…
