# NVIDIA contributes OpenShell agent security runtime to CNCF

_Published Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 11:23 AM EST · Security, AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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NVIDIA says it is contributing OpenShell, its open source software for controlling autonomous AI agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Sandbox project. Governance will move to the organizations building the software into their products.

OpenShell enforces policies when agents use tools, access inference services and execute workloads. Organizations can connect their own computing resources, inference providers, credential stores and monitoring systems. NVIDIA says hundreds of organizations already use it. NVIDIA and Google are also working to integrate OpenShell with Agent Substrate to govern agents across cloud and on-premises systems; that integration is still in development.

## Sources

- [News Releases - NVIDIA Newsroom](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-source-openshell-infrastructure/)

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