NVIDIA Announces Open Agent Safety Platform to Contain AI Agents
NVIDIA announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, a framework for monitoring and constraining AI agents that act autonomously. The platform has two components. NVIDIA OpenShell is open-source software that runs on an NVIDIA Vera CPU and checks each tool an agent tries to use, letting operators set rules on files and network connections the agent can reach and blocking anything outside those rules. NVIDIA Sentry is a separate monitoring system that runs on the BlueField-4 data processing unit and can stop an agent that moves outside its boundary in milliseconds. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called the platform a browser for agents and said trust in how AI is built and deployed is a condition for the AI industry's success. A company spokesperson said the July incident in which an OpenAI AI agent intruded into Hugging Face could possibly have been prevented with the platform.