Nvidia picks OpenShell to tame AI gents

Nvidia has proposed a new way to keep corporate AI agents in line.

Nvidia on Wednesday introduced its OpenShell Reference Architecture. Based on the company's OpenShell secure runtime, It's a recipe for creating, operating, observing, and policing AI agents using OpenShell on Nvidia hardware.

"Nvidia created OpenShell to give agents the freedom to do useful work within clearly defined boundaries — contained, monitored and under control," CEO Jensen Huang said in a canned statement. "With the OpenShell Reference Architecture, agents can think on Rubin, act on Vera and be governed on BlueField."

AI agents are touted as a powerful automation technology. The reality is that they can be unruly, as demonstrated by security testing OpenAI and Anthropic conducted, during which their models exceeded their remit and attacked third-party organizations.

Developers of existing agents, like Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and OpenCode, therefore include controls that limit access to tools like curl and bash. …