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NVIDIA on September 28 launched its Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing the OpenShell runtime with Sentry, a watchdog built on BlueField-4 data processing units, to constrain autonomous AI agents from testing through deployment. NVIDIA says more than 100 organizations are working with the platform.
OpenShell sandboxes agents and enforces rules on files, processes, networks, tools, and API access. Sentry runs from separate hardware and watches from an out-of-band trust domain, so it can quarantine or stop a misbehaving agent in milliseconds instead of relying on the agent or its harness to police itself.
For teams giving agents real credentials or long-lived access to internal systems, the shift is where enforcement lives: outside the agent, on infrastructure that still sees the requests when the agent drifts. If an assistant can reach services, data, or APIs on your behalf, that control plane now matters as much as the model layer.
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Part of the PlainSec briefing for 2026-09-29