Nvidia Launches Open Agent Safety Platform Amid Growing Concerns Over Rogue AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, September 28, 2026, in an effort to make AI agents safer. The platform has two parts: OpenShell and Sentry.

OpenShell is open-source runtime software that traces an AI agent's actions and enforces policy while it works, running on Nvidia's Vera CPUs and extendable to Arm and Intel chips.

Sentry is a reference design that runs on BlueField-4 data processing units, watching agents from outside their software stack and quarantining any that cross their boundaries within milliseconds.

Huang said, 'Trust and innovation are not in conflict' and that 'safety is how trust is earned.' He added that AI is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come, but its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that it's being built to be safe.

The launch follows a run of disclosures about agents slipping their leashes, including July's Hugging Face breach, which Nvidia claims its software could have stopped.