Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell + Sentry dual-layer defense with 100+ organizations
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28, comprising Apache 2.0 open source runtime OpenShell (on Vera CPUs) and hardware watchdog Sentry (on BlueField-4 DPUs), joined by 100+ organizations including Anthropic, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and SpaceXAI.
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28 as an open software platform and reference system design for strengthening AI safety throughout the agent lifecycle, from testing to deployment. CEO Jensen Huang said in the announcement: the immense potential of AI for society will only be realized if AI safety is solved; safety and assurance require full-stack engineering.
The platform consists of two core components. OpenShell is an Apache 2.0 open source runtime running on Nvidia Vera CPUs (the first CPU designed specifically for Agentic AI), tracking all agent actions and enforcing policy at runtime with minimal overhead, and extendable to Arm and Intel third-party compute platforms. Sentry is a reference design out-of-band watchdog built on Nvidia BlueField-4 DPUs and Nvidia DOCA software that can quarantine agents attempting to cross software boundaries in milliseconds, providing attested telemetry, verifying agent identity, and enforcing fine-grained zero-trust access policies.
More than 100 organizations joined the ecosystem collaboration, including Anthropic (Claude Managed Agents integrates with OpenShell and BlueField), Microsoft, Salesforce (integrating OpenShell into Slack), SAP (embedded in Joule Studio runtime), SpaceXAI (for Cursor coding agents and Grok models), Hugging Face, JPMorgan, Citi, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Scale AI, ServiceNow, Perplexity, and Palantir. Other partners span consulting (Accenture, Deloitte, EY, IBM), robotics (Figure, Gecko Robotics, Skild AI), energy critical infrastructure (Hitachi Energy, EPRI, NextEra, Schneider Electric, Siemens Energy), operating systems (Canonical, SUSE, Red Hat), and AI infrastructure (Baseten, CoreWeave, GMI Cloud, Nebius, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Supermicro, Together AI).
OpenShell software and skills are available through the Nvidia developer page and GitHub. Ecosystem contributions are driven by the Open Secure AI Alliance co-governed by the Linux Foundation with 120+ participating organizations.