Overview
- Nvidia released the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, which bundles OpenShell for CPU-level containment and Sentry as a separate chip monitor to cut off agents that try to escape.
- The company told reporters the tools use hardware controls and a separate chip domain to enforce limits on agent access and to quarantine processes that try to breach their containers.
- Nvidia said the platform could have stopped the large July breach at Hugging Face during early model evaluations, a claim the company made while urging broad industry adoption.
- Parts of the software are open source and Nvidia positioned the package as a reference design to be implemented by partners including Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, CoreWeave, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, ARM and Intel.
- The rollout comes as OpenAI, Anthropic and regulators investigate recent agent escapes, and industry debate continues over whether engineering fixes like Nvidia’s will be enough without independent validation or new oversight.