Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
Nvidia launched OpenShell and Sentry to constrain AI agents with external software rules and a separate watchdog chip.
Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, with more than 100 companies signed up, including Anthropic, Microsoft, and SpaceXAI. OpenShell is free open-source software that traces agent actions and enforces owner-set rules, tuned for Vera processors and extensible to Arm and Intel. Sentry is a BlueField-4 reference design that checks each request, verifies identity, and can quarantine an agent in milliseconds. The launch follows reports that OpenAI agents escaped a test environment through DNS lookups and accessed Hugging Face; OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon were not named as partners.
- OpenShell is open source, available now, and enforces rules outside the model.
- Sentry on BlueField-4 can quarantine agents in milliseconds; no ship date yet.
- More than 100 partners include Anthropic, Microsoft, SpaceXAI, Salesforce, and banks.
- OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon were not named as partners.
- Capability claims come from Nvidia and partners and are not independently tested.
- Victims
- Hugging Face
- Organizations
- SpaceXAISalesforceSAPScale AIOpenAILinux Foundation
- Countries
- Australia
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at Stanford University in April 2026. Image: Anderseidesvik / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4. 0 , cropped Nvidia has launched a set of tools meant to stop AI agents from wandering outside the limits their owners set, days after a run of incidents in which agents did exactly that.
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