Nvidia OpenShell

(github.com)

58 points | by niemandhier 1 hour ago

14 comments

  • overflowy 43 minutes ago
    >OpenShell collects anonymous telemetry, limited to operational categories and counts, to help improve the project.

    >To disable it, set OPENSHELL_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false on the gateway, or server.telemetryEnabled=false for Helm installs.

  • moooff 14 minutes ago
    right now i am experimenting on an agent in a browser as a single.html file running a virtual filesystem and using python in WASM to do the heavy lifting. its really useful and funny to watch how it works.

    it is quite useful and solves / addresses quite a lot of privacy and security issues but it is more limited of course. i really like the results if you want you can try it out with an inference endpoint you want its live/downloadable at

    https://moooff.github.io/HermitUI/hermit-agent/dist/hermit-a...

    iam always open to discussion ad feedback of course

  • spider-mario 0 minutes ago
    Looks neat. I’ll give Claude root access so it can set it up.
  • nasretdinov 32 minutes ago
    It's funny that it takes checks notes a video game card manufacturer to make a good sandbox for AI agents and not the AI companies themselves...
    • kbenson 28 minutes ago
      You're mistaking what a company started as for what it is now. Nvidia hasn't just been a video game card manufacturer in well over a decade, and hasn't been primarily one for quite a while now.

      They are the premier manufacturer of electronics that power all the current AI. Why wouldn't they be contributing heavily to the space?

    • nickv 7 minutes ago
      5.5% of Nvida's revenue comes from consumer gaming cards. That's like saying Nintendo is playing card company because they still sell playing cards.

      The economist literally called Nvidia the "Central Bank of AI". https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nv...

      I'd argue that Nvidia is the biggest and most important AI company in the world.

    • LoganDark 25 minutes ago
      It's funny that people think Nvidia is still a video game card manufacturer
      • Wheen 23 minutes ago
        They literally don't even mention gaming revenue in earnings calls anymore. It's lumped in an "edge computing" category.
        • mushufasa 20 minutes ago
          is that true? if so that's wild, since they're still dominant in the gaming market as the premium hardware relative to competitors.
          • mcmcmc 13 minutes ago
            TAM for the PC gaming consumer market is trivial compared to enterprise AI
      • ChocolateGod 23 minutes ago
        AIs will control humans so we'll be the video game.
    • cyanydeez 25 minutes ago
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  • dangoodmanUT 33 minutes ago
    Taking default telemetry is insane.

    That aside, the level of control is cool, almost too pedantic. It likely is only particularly useful for very nuanced enterprise requirements (probably what it's targeting). Most companies can be much more coarse with their permissions, and I think the agentic industry is moving away from k8s as a deployment platform.

    • monsieurbanana 28 minutes ago
      > I think the agentic industry is moving away from k8s as a deployment platform

      Interesting, I don't to keep up that much with the AI changes so I'll just ask, why and where to?

  • agentdev001 36 minutes ago
    Nvidia Openshell is absolutely awesome, great bundle of features in one spot. Im happy to see Nvidia seems to have accelerated on support here, I was kinda worried that as competing projects have popped up in the last 6mo that openshell would get google'd
  • mfro 28 minutes ago
    If you haven’t already been running your agents in containers, you’re crazy. That said, this looks like a great way to manage those containers.
    • smokel 24 minutes ago
      Well, a lot of people haven't been running NodeJS libraries in containers for ages, which seems even more risky.
      • ChocolateGod 22 minutes ago
        Something like this would even be useful for npm etc.
    • stronglikedan 16 minutes ago
      Technically, my laptop is a container!
      • InsideOutSanta 8 minutes ago
        We successfully airgapped AI. It's only on earth.
  • sscaryterry 6 minutes ago
    > OpenShell collects anonymous telemetry

    Spyware

  • niemandhier 1 hour ago
    Just came back from GTC Europe and a significant part of the demos used that.

    I had never heard about it before.

  • esafak 4 minutes ago
    Does anyone know how it compares to all the other sandboxes? Any distinguishing features?
  • simlevesque 32 minutes ago
    I asked last week if anyone had any info on agent security/hardening, this seems very interesting !
  • opengrass 20 minutes ago
    NOOOOOOOO not AI in the heckin start menu!!!1!
  • layer8 36 minutes ago
  • 150g2 8 minutes ago
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