NVIDIA OpenShell Brings System-Level Security to Autonomous AI Agents
NVIDIA has released OpenShell, an open source runtime designed to run autonomous AI agents in isolated sandboxes with security policies enforced at the system level rather than through prompts. Part of the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, OpenShell separates agent behavior from policy definition and enforcement, preventing compromised agents from overriding security constraints, leaking credentials, or accessing unauthorized data. The company is collaborating with security partners including Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google Cloud, Microsoft Security, and TrendAI to integrate policy management across enterprise stacks. NVIDIA also released NemoClaw, a reference implementation that bundles OpenShell with Nemotron models for building self-evolving personal AI assistants, with both projects currently in early preview.