NVIDIA OpenShell Adds Runtime Controls to AI Agents
NVIDIA published a developer blog post introducing OpenShell, a tool for adding runtime controls to AI agents. The post describes agents that pursue goals, write code, use tools, and operate over days or weeks, and notes that useful agents require access to workspaces, compute resources, data, credentials, and external services.
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