NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Contain Rogue Agents in Milliseconds

NVIDIA has unveiled an open agent safety platform consisting of two components: OpenShell, which sandboxes AI agents running on Vera CPUs, and Sentry, which runs on BlueField-4 SmartNICs and can quarantine misbehaving agents within milliseconds at the network layer. The platform is designed to address the growing risk of agent misalignment in production deployments, where an agent that deviates from intended behavior could cause cascading harm before a human operator can intervene. By operating at the hardware and network layers rather than purely in software, the system aims to provide containment guarantees that application-layer safeguards cannot reliably offer. For developers shipping agentic systems into enterprise or critical infrastructure, this represents a meaningful new layer of defense-in-depth. The open nature of the platform suggests NVIDIA intends it to become a baseline standard, which could drive adoption across cloud providers and on-premises deployments.