# Open source contribution to CNCF

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, NVIDIA said it is donating OpenShell, an open source runtime for securing and governing autonomous agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project, while also contributing to Google-led Agent Substrate and releasing three new components of the DSX AI Factory Platform. OpenShell applies deterministic controls to agent activity so teams can enforce policies as agents use tools, access inference services and execute workloads, and its extensible architecture connects their own compute, inference providers, credential storage and monitoring tools. NVIDIA says hundreds of organizations have put OpenShell to use and the project has received tens of thousands of contributions in less than a year since launch.

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, NVIDIA said it is donating OpenShell, an open source runtime for securing and governing autonomous agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project, while also contributing to Google-led Agent Substrate and releasing three new components of the DSX AI Factory Platform. OpenShell applies deterministic controls to agent activity so teams can enforce policies as agents use tools, access inference services and execute workloads, and its extensible architecture connects their own compute, inference providers, credential storage and monitoring tools. NVIDIA says hundreds of organizations have put OpenShell to use and the project has received tens of thousands of contributions in less than a year since launch.