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October 2, 2026. Ackuity, the Agent Execution Control Switch for AI agents, today announced that it is building an integration with NVIDIA OpenShell, the open source secure runtime NVIDIA introduced at GTC on March 16, 2026. On September 28, NVIDIA launched the Open Agent Safety Platform and announced OpenShell 0.1.0 as broadly available. The integration will let teams running agents in OpenShell check every agent action against enterprise context before it leaves the sandbox.
OpenShell runs each AI agent in a kernel-isolated sandbox. A supervisor beside each sandbox is the agent’s only way out, inspecting outbound HTTP, GraphQL and MCP traffic against policy before it leaves. Those policies define what an agent may do or touch.
Ackuity adds the question a policy cannot answer on its own: does this specific action make sense right now? Through OpenShell’s supervisor middleware, a gRPC hook that lets an external service allow, deny or modify agent traffic, Ackuity will evaluate each action three ways. Does it fit the enterprise security context of users, agents, entitlements, target systems and intent? Is it anomalous against the historical baselines of the agent, the user, the tool and the target system? And do several individually harmless steps add up to a threat pattern defined in standards such as MITRE ATLAS and OWASP?
“NVIDIA built OpenShell on the same principle we started Ackuity with: you cannot write rules inside an agent and expect the agent to follow them,” said Rajat Mohanty, co-founder and CEO of Ackuity. “Control has to sit outside the agent’s reach, and close enough to keep its context. OpenShell draws the boundary. Ackuity decides, one action at a time, what should cross it.”
“Most agent incidents do not start with one obviously bad call,” said Vinod Vasudevan, co-founder and CTO of Ackuity. “They start with steps that each look fine. Checking those steps against who asked, what they asked for and what the agent has done before is how you catch an agent going rogue without shutting down the useful work around it.”
The OpenShell integration is in development. NVIDIA describes the supervisor middleware as still evolving, and Ackuity is building against it as it matures. Integration with NVIDIA Sentry, the platform’s out-of-band watchdog, is a future direction that depends on NVIDIA’s partner interfaces.
Organizations not running OpenShell can use the same decision layer today through the Ackuity sidecar, which runs on any Kubernetes cluster, including NVIDIA-based infrastructure, outside the agent’s reach and with no changes to agent code. Details are at https://ackuity.ai/integrations/nvidia-openshell.
Ackuity is a member of NVIDIA Inception. NVIDIA, OpenShell and BlueField are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation.
About Ackuity
Ackuity is the Agent Execution Control Switch AI builders add to their agents, verifying every action before it runs. It sits beside each agent and checks every action, including tool calls, database queries, memory access and hand-offs between agents, against policy, compliance rules and more than 60 threat models mapped to NIST, OWASP and MITRE ATLAS. It works with any model, agent platform or cloud, and needs no changes to agent code. Global systems integrators and enterprises, including banks, run Ackuity today in production, pilot and beta. Ackuity is a member of NVIDIA Inception and the Open Secure AI Alliance. Its founders built Paladion into the world’s largest MDR platform, later acquired by Atos. Ackuity is a US-based company. Learn more at ackuity.ai.
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