NVIDIA Donates OpenShell to CNCF and Releases New AI Factory Components
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On November 11, 2026, NVIDIA announced at KubeCon that it is donating its open-source runtime project OpenShell to the CNCF as a Sandbox-level project. According to NVIDIA's official blog (primary source), OpenShell is used to apply deterministic control over autonomous agents and govern their tool use and inference access. Less than a year after launch, the project is already used by hundreds of organizations. At the same event, NVIDIA also released new components of the DSX AI Factory Platform. The donation has been officially announced, but there is no reported follow-up on CNCF's acceptance yet.
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At KubeCon, NVIDIA announced it is donating the open source runtime OpenShell to the CNCF as a Sandbox project, used to apply deterministic controls to autonomous agents and govern their tool use and inference access; in under a year it has already been adopted by hundreds of organizations.
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