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title: "Introducing OpenShell Research"
date: 2026-09-28
description: "Hello, world—from the OpenShell Research team."
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# Introducing OpenShell Research

<p class="dev-note-deck">Hello, world—from the OpenShell Research team.</p>

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        <strong>Johnny Greco</strong>
        <span>OpenShell Team @ NVIDIA</span>
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    <span>Dev Note</span>
    <time datetime="2026-09-28">September 28, 2026</time>
    <a href="../index.md?category=announcements">Announcements</a>
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<p class="dev-note-greeting"><span><span class="dev-note-greeting__prompt">&gt;_</span> Hello, world!</span></p>

Today we announced the [NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-open-agent-safety-platform-a-reference-for-continuous-in-silicon-agent-monitoring), which runs on the open-source [OpenShell](https://github.com/NVIDIA/openshell) platform. This feels like a great opportunity to introduce our team — **OpenShell Research**. We’re a cross-functional team of researchers, engineers, and product managers working together to shape OpenShell’s roadmap and advance the safe and secure use of autonomous AI agents in the enterprise and beyond.

We believe AI agents have enormous potential to deliver value and help people, but realizing this potential requires understanding and limiting the harm they can cause. As model capabilities and the broader ecosystem continue to evolve, addressing these risks will require ongoing research. This is why we created our team — to ensure OpenShell keeps pace with the demands of deploying agents safely. Our initial research efforts will span harness integrations, long-running and multi-agent systems, adversarial testing, policy verification using formal methods, and applications in robotics. We’ll build prototypes, run benchmarks and large-scale experiments, and turn what we learn into dependable OpenShell capabilities — we’re just getting started!

We also believe that open research is essential to making AI safe. This is why we are committed to working with the open-source community and building in public. [Dev Notes](../index.md) is where we’ll share our latest research, announcements, and the implementation lessons we learn along the way. When it makes sense to share (and maintain) code, we’ll put it in our [OpenShell Research repo](https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell-Research). Code used in our research is always available upon request.

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## Join us

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We’re hiring! We are actively looking for researchers and engineers who love to build and are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible through open research. If this sounds like you, consider [applying to join our team](https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-Remote/Software-Engineer--OpenShell_JR2020825).