NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Introduces the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design combining NVIDIA OpenShell (runtime with kernel-level isolation for agents) on Vera CPUs with NVIDIA Sentry (hardware-based monitoring and enforcement) on BlueField-4 DPUs. Details five core principles: verifiable policy, out-of-band enforcement, controlling the path to the model, scaling agent authority with reasoning visibility, and shared responsibility. Highlights NVIDIA Sentry's role in providing continuous, in-silicon monitoring and policy enforcement at line speed via BlueField hardware and DOCA, correlating agent interactions, policy decisions, and tool access for contextual activity records. This represents a significant advancement in providing a robust, layered, and hardware-assisted security framework for AI agents.