Open Agent Safety Platform
Open source platform to contain and monitor AI agents
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Nvidia released the Open Agent Safety Platform, software letting developers set safeguards to stop AI agents from breaking out of containment. It includes OpenShell, which runs on CPUs to limit agent capabilities, and Sentry, a network-level monitor. Some components are open source. Nvidia says the platform could have prevented OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, where over 17,000 agents attacked infrastructure for days and weeks. Partners include Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, CoreWeave, Dell, HPE, Leno
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Artificial Intelligence
- Security
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Could you build this?
No This is enterprise-grade security infrastructure by Nvidia involving OS-level sandboxing, CPU containment, and real-time network traffic packet inspection.
What it would actually take: Building an agent containment platform requires low-level systems programming (e.g., Rust/C/eBPF), Linux kernel sandboxing primitives (cgroups, seccomp, namespaces), and deep network security monitoring to intercept and evaluate agent execution and syscalls in real time.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 476 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #369 of 477 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
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- AgentArmor · hn · 2026-03-14 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- OpenRod · github · 2026-10-02 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Vegaduta.ai · ph · 2026-11-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- AgentGuard Architecture Toolkit · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Agent Vault · hn · 2026-04-22 · 156 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Omnara · hn · 2026-10-21 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- PROMETHEUS: Safe AI Dev & Scan Security · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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